By Jeffrey Robb, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. May 27--From the students' view, it's a drag. Millard and Westside school districts will stretch their school years into this week, keeping their students in school a week longer than their metro-area neighbors.

By Michaela Saunders, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Apr. 7--Chandler View is one of only two elementary schools in Douglas and Sarpy Counties where more than half the students are considered poor and yet achievement scores beat the state averages in reading, writing and math.

The Omaha Public Schools (OPS) system is ramping up the online homework help and study materials available to the region's twenty thousand tech-savvy secondary students with content from the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC), a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE).

By Michaela Saunders, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Feb. 19--A three-story addition planned for Omaha North High School's engineering program could open as soon as 2009.

By Judith Nygren, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Feb. 12--Despite the higher cost of sending students to the metro area's first focus school, the Elkhorn school board agreed Monday that it remains committed to helping open Underwood Hills, a collaboration of three districts.