Teachers

Fairfield police have arrested a special education teacher on allegations she punished a 6-year-old autistic student by making the girl take her shirt off in a classroom. Fifty-three-year-old Elizabeth Valeriay of Madison was charged Tuesday with...

A proposal by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to shorten the school year by five days is creating panic among educators across California, who say they barely have enough time to fit the state's academic standards into the existing 180-day calendar. The...

2008 Dec. - Noygel Antonio Massop, 41, an English teacher and boys basketball coach at J. P. Taravella High School, is arrested on five charges of sexual battery for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old female student from about Oct. 1, 2007, to Nov....

Lee King's subjects include forgotten heroes such as civil-rights activists and educators who taught black children during the days of segregation. King also has focused her lens on famous markswoman Annie Oakley, the city of Leesburg and its airport,...

The first thing you notice when Kerry O'Connor is in front of a classroom is his booming, oughta-be-on-radio voice. The 18 third-graders in his class at Pitkin Elementary School were fidgety as the school day was about to end. With his forceful voice,...

Robert E. Kersey, a trumpet player, music educator and Carroll County public schools administrator, died of cancer Sunday at the Shores at Wesley Manor Health Care Center in Ocean City, N.J. The former Westminster resident was 84. Born in Trenton, N.J.,...

Events Poquoson High Islander Band Fruit Sale. Orders available through Sunday; delivery is 8:30-11 a.m. Jan. 17; Poquoson High School, 51 Odd Road. Sale of navel oranges, red grapefruit, tangerines, tangelos and fruit samplers. Proceeds benefit the band....

*Ann Archer, Apopka Elementary School art teacher. *Laurie Jordan, Countryside Art School. *Earl Milbrath, Lakemont Elementary School art teacher. *Michaella Palumbo, Altamonte Elementary School art teacher. *Marsha Rose, Shenandoah Elementary...

Frederick Dumas, a school administrator who in the 1960s was the first director of Operation Head Start in Los Angeles County and who co-founded an organization to push for equal treatment of minority teachers and students in Los Angeles schools, has...

Educators across Florida are bailing on plans to join the ranks of nationally certified teachers after the state Legislature yanked the money to pay for training and bonuses. Just this month the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards...

'Tremendous detail." "Great perspective." "Wonderful shading." "A lot of movement." "Thoughtful writing." Those are just a few of the phrases judges used to describe the three Grand Prize winners in the Orlando Sentinel's 21st annual Holiday Art...

'Tremendous detail." "Great perspective." "Wonderful shading." "A lot of movement." "Thoughtful writing." Those are just a few of the phrases judges used to describe the three Grand Prize winners in the Orlando Sentinel's 21st annual Holiday Art...