Four current and former high school students have sued the Puyallup, Wash., school district, claiming they were harassed after their names were used in a story about their sex lives in their school’s student newspaper.

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The Oregon Department of Education must pay $3.5 million to an online testing company the state sued last year after schools were forced to resort to paper-and-pencil tests.

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Student achievement is improving in New Orleans, even as most of the schools operated by the state-run Recovery School District remain among the lowest-performing in Louisiana.

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The finance director of the Narragansett, R.I., school system has been accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the district.

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Many schools and districts are using computer-based testing for local assessments, but employing computers for statewide testing has proven to be difficult.

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“The only certainty there should be regarding standardized-test scores is the certainty they’re not indisputable,” says Todd Farley.

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