Sure, bleeding heart PC types killed a bill earlier this year that would have allowed guns on college campuses in Texas. Consolation prize: Texas is "close to enacting" a new bill that will give school teachers detailed criminal histories of all their students. Because you never know when the next six-year-old will…

Will our nation ever learn how to properly utilize its $105 million buildings?

You know that common recurring nightmare where you're wandering around your elementary school after hours, and you stumble into your teacher, and he's completely naked and wanting to talk to you about enlightenment? No? Maybe it's just me. Anyway — that scenario has played itself out in real life. What does it all…

To hear some on the political right talk about it, "homosexual indoctrination" is already a problem in public schools — and it's about to get much, much worse.

Chocolate milk! Going inside of your child's body, and doing who knows what to Aedynn's delicate little organs! In our nation's capital, the number one education is this: How chocolatey is too chocolatey?

The grand experiment is finally over. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg has dropped his unqualified and unpopular schools chancellor Cathie Black after only a few months on the job. Her replacement will be Dennis Walcott, a current deputy mayor.

Each one of the 1,926 teachers working for the Providence School Department was sent a dismissal notice this week, in a move officials say was necessary to deal with a projected deficit of almost $40 million next year.

The Detroit public school system plans to close 70 schools to fill a $327 million budget gap while leaving 72 open. Can't you do something about this, Eminem? Maybe make a few phone calls...? Ugh.

Let's check in on America's public school systems and see how we're preparing our youth of today for the challenges of tomorrow! In Fairfax County, Va., The Washington Post reports, a 15-year-old "model student" and linebacker, Nick Stuban, was suspended and banned from school property for seven weeks for buying a…

In Texas, school districts are so low on money that they're selling ads on school buses, thanks to the "largest cuts to public education since World War II." In New York, many school districts are staring down 14% budget cuts, which educators fear will "widen the funding gap between wealthier and poorer school…

Did allegedly sexy schoolteachers Alini Brito and Cindy Mauro have lesbian sex in a non-lesbian classroom? According to your brain, the New York Post, and a Facebook group, yes! But according to Brito, who's filing a wrongful termination lawsuit... no.

A woman in Winnetka, Illinois received a terrifying cell phone call from her husband yesterday: though garbled, it sounded to her like he was being taken hostage. The SWAT team was called out. Whoops: it was a butt dial.

A lot of people have been wondering why New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg tapped former Hearst chief Cathie Black to run the city's school system. Add Black to the list: Bloomberg never even interviewed her before offering her the job.

Joel Klein, who's been the head of the New York City school system since 2002, is stepping down—to take a job at News Corp. One insane job to another! His replacement: Hearst chairman Cathie Black.

Today we suggested that everyone just give up on this whole school idea. School will never work! Teachers are rotten! There's no money! Etc. This elicited lots of commenter feedback, with one commenter in particular issuing a simple, earnest plea.

On the Report, Colbert revealed his plans to start his namesake for-profit university. At the Stephen Colbert "University" all you need to earn a "Grave-Robber" or "Googler" degree is an Internet connection and a letter of recommendation from Benjamin Franklin.

There are plenty of believable excuses for missing work, but pulling out the not-actually-dead dead relative story is always a bad idea. It worked at first for one Bronx school staffer, until she was spotted bowling with her "dead" mom.