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Reports on selection and appointments in positions related to education. Appointment of Richard S. Cross as the commissioner of education by the Alaska Board of education; Appointment of Veronica C. Garcia as the superintendent of Santa Fe, New Mexico school district; Selection of Bonnie Brinly as legislative liaison to the Kentucky education department.

Covers information concerning education in the United States as of April 1999. Honoring of Andrew Baumgartner, a kindergarten teacher as the 1999 National Teacher of the Year; Statement from the North Carolina officials that their state is closer to its goal of leading the nation on accountability measures.

Presents news items related to education in the United States. Information on a course in food etiquette at the Metro Tech High School in Phoenix, Arizona; Details on taste-test panels being conducted by school districts in Maryland and Virginia for students to decide what to cook at school.

Reports on the criticism on the 1997 North Carolina dropout-prevention law which requires dropouts to surrender their driving privileges. Refusal of the Johnston County, North Carolina school district to release information that would take away the driving privileges of 410 students; Plan of state and federal officials to revise the law to bring it into compliance.

Reports on developments in the school district of Connecticut and a reading program in Hawaii. High school junior Stratos Pahis' rally to pass the proposed school-sponsored student publications in Connecticut; Participation of Hawaii Governor Cayetano in promoting reading and honoring the late Theodore S. Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.

Focuses on the senior citizen tutoring program in the United States about economics. Function in offsetting property-tax hikes; Details on the tutoring programs on every states across the country; Use of the program in bridging generation gaps.

Reports on the hiring of fifth grader Brian Hug at Center Elementary School in Mayfield Heights, Ohio to deal with the Y2K computer bug. Assumption that children are more computer-savvy than adults; Hug's salary; Opposition to Hug's employment.

Reports on the United States Department of Education's compliance with the federal government's deadline for preparations for the Y2K computer bug. Renovation of data systems; Revision of the student loan program.

Presents news briefs on school districts in Kentucky, Detroit, Colorado, California and New Jersey. Supreme Court ruling that allows Jefferson County, Kentucky to continue to pay 65 percent of the cost of busing students to religious schools; Appointment of a new school board by Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer; Death of three students in a series of unrelated school bus accidents in New Jersey.

Presents education-related news items in the United States as of March 31, 1999. Includes criticisms against the use of corporate logos in mathematics textbooks; Status of the teachers' back-pay controversy in Arkansas; Settlement of a sex-abuse case in Boulder, Colorado. INSET: Death (Elizabeth Paisley Huckaby), by Marnie Roberts..

Presents news briefs concerning schools districts across the United States. Dismissal of Charleston County, South Carolina Superintendent Chip Zullinger; Transfer of authority over Detroit, Michigan schools to Detroit mayor Dennis W. Archer; Federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida against the Miami-Dade County district. INSET: Death, by Mark Walsh..

Presents news briefs on education in the United States as of March 1999. Shut down of the Citizens Committee on Public Education in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Results of the survey conducted by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms on youth gun purchases; Expulsion of a Wisconsin Dells high school student John Krahn for distributing an underground newspaper.

Presents news briefs on various topics in the United States (US). Details on a report on young people's apathy about the democratic process in the country; Participation of Alabama's K-12 students in a mock election for governor.

Presents news briefs related to education in the United States. Selection of Valley High School in West Des Moines as the best high school music program; Pennsylvanian teachers' donation for the Meyersdale Public Library.

Presents news briefs about education in the United States. Results of broad-based discussions on how to improve the public schools in Illinois; Effort of lawmakers in Washington state to pay tribute to Seattle schools superintendent John H. Stanford; Contribution of Stanford in the district's education system.