RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- North Carolina and Microsoft Corp. today announced that North Carolina is the first state in the nation to launch and implement the Microsoft IT Academy Program at all public high schools statewide.

ATLANTA, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Five leading Georgia disabilities advocacy organizations gathered today at the State Board of Education to implore its members to pass and strengthen a new rule to protect schoolchildren from restraint and seclusion.

HARRISBURG, Pa., May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The State Board of Education today advanced proposed student nutrition and physical activity standards that would make Pennsylvania's response to the growing obesity epidemic one of the nation's strongest.

HARRISBURG, Pa., April 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On April 6, the State Board of Education will begin holding public roundtables on a proposal that would allow Pennsylvania to join eight states and the United States Department of Agriculture in strengthening student nutrition and physical activity standards.

By Amy K. Stewart Deseret News Reacting to concerns from upset school district superintendents, the State Board of Education has decided to slow down on an expensive proposal requiring districts to hire more school counselors.