According to the last scientific repots, the problem of diagnostics of dangerous disease as SMA (spinal muscular atrophy) is partly solved. The group of US geneticists made the statement where they declared about the new research that helps to identify the most widespread genetic diseases as SMA in a laboratory environment. Such wonderful opportunity appeared after discovering the new way of receiving the large number of affected cells. As the popular scientific journal Nature informs, the scientists were using during this research the skin cells of a little child who had ...

The parents of the kids attending 2 rural schools - Goodsprings and Mount Charleston Elementary Schools – are disturbed because CCSD (Clark County School District) representatives informed about their intention to close these small schools. According to CCSD officials’ statement they are going to save money for other schools of this district in such way. But the parents are not agree with such decision of local authorities and intend to protest against the closure of the schools. As parents told in the interview to...

Recently the official representative of Montgomery county public schools (MCPS) and the President of the Montgomery County Board of Education Shirley Brandman and the Vice President of the Board and Chair of the Policy Committee Patricia O’Neill made a statement aiming to falsify the information of Washington Post article entitled “Montgomery Erasing Gifted Label”. According to this statement, the Washington Post article “Montgomery Erasing Gifted Label” gives its readers an impression that Montgomery County Board of Education has already stopped to ...

Arne Duncan, CEO of Chicago Schools, was chosen by the new president Barack Obama for the post of U.S. Secretary of Education. Mr. Duncan is also known thanks to the number of his exemplary schools, like the Dodge Renaissance Academy where he was tapped at. We want to remind to you that the academy was the first from the list of failing schools that Mr. Duncan closed and then reopened achieving the success in such way ...

This Tuesday the BOE (Board of Education) of Montgomery County decided to make an official statement concerning the closing of all MCPS (Montgomery County Public Schools) on Inauguration Day (the 20th of January, 2009) when the new president of The United States of America will be inaugurated. Besides this date the resolution, proposed by Christopher Barclay (the member of BOE) on the 18th of November, implies the decision of cancelling school classes on all the future Inauguration Days. This means that the students of MCPS will have an official day-off...

The sensational scientific breakthrough was made recently by US scientists when they confirmed the fact that the second case of unblemished conception among sharks has happened. Few facts about the first registered case of 2007 - a female representative of hammer-headed sharks turned to be impregnate without any influence from the human side and without interference of a male shark. We want to remind to you that this biological miracle happened in the zoo of Omaha, state Nebraska. Now it is the approved fact that the first pregnant shark bore a shark calf. So it was the first example of the so-called virgin birth.

Getting into college in Washington could get tougher in coming months as universities and community colleges respond to orders from Gov. Chris Gregoire to slash their budgets by millions.

Parents of two Bothell High School cheerleaders have sued the Northshore School District, alleging school officials erred when they suspended the girls from the team this year after nude photos of them circulated through the student body.

The presidents of the University of Washington and Washington State University decline pay raises this year -- and one asked for a pay cut.

Outgoing state schools chief Terry Bergeson reflected on her 12 years in office in her final "state of education" speech Friday morning.