Andre Young, also known as the hip-hop master producer Dr. Dre, has pledged $35 million of his own money in  a $70 million collaboration with producer and co-founder of Interscope records Jimmy Iovine to begin a program in his and Jimmy Iovine’s name at the University of Southern California.  The Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for […]

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Roland Martin talks with Bishop Douglas Miles, co-chair of the BUILD organization and co-founding member about the historic $1 billion investment in Baltimore’s schools.

Officials say a Lafayette school bus carrying special needs kids rolled over on Interstate 65 Thursday afternoon. The semi was changing lanes Thursday afternoon when it struck the bus, which went into the median and rolled over. Police on the scene say five kids and seven adults are injuries. All are non-life threatening injuries. Methodist […]

A high school senior in Georgia was suspended from school after posting his principal’s mugshot on Instagram. After learning about the incident, Principal Jamille Miller-Brown called KeAndre Varner to her office and slapped the student with a four day suspension. “There was a violation of policy,” Miller-Brown told the New York Daily News, saying that […]

Kiera Wilmot got good grades and had a perfect behavior record. She wasn’t the kind of kid you’d expect to find hauled away in handcuffs and expelled from school, but that’s exactly what happened after an attempt at a science project went horribly wrong. On 7 a.m. on Monday, the 16 year-old mixed some common […]

The attack on a Franklin Central High School teacher — the second on an Indianapolis-area teacher in the past week — is “a reminder of the things that teachers deal with every single day’’ but doesn’t necessarily signal any new wave of violence or danger, a teacher’s union official said Wednesday. Mark Shoup, a spokesman […]

If there wasn’t a Donald Byrd, there would be no Will Downing. Plain and simple. The legendary trumpeter may have passed away in February, but his influence flows alive and well in Downing, who clearly remembers how Byrd’s appearance with his 125th Street band at a music class he took at Virginia Union University put him on the […]

Misbehaving in school earned one young girl a trip to the station in handcuffs. Elementary school student Jmyha Rickman, an autistic eight-year-old from Alton, Ill., had her wrists and feet cuffed and was taken away in the back of a police car late Tuesday morning after throwing a tantrum, reports St. Louis’ KMOV. School officials […]

While many students were sleeping last night, a major power shift occurred at the state’s largest school system. The head of Indianapolis Public Schools, Superintendent Eugene White, announced he’s retiring. As 30,000 IPS students come to school this morning, they won’t notice anything different. But the implications of Dr. White’s retirement on the future of these schools loom […]

IPS officials say plans for a free preschool for 4-year-olds have been put on hold. John Althardt with IPS says the school board plans on discussing the idea again next month. The board says they will reevaluate the plan after looking at costs. Officials say the new school board is committed to the plan, but […]

Many families are preparing for the upcoming school year and looking for new ways to save time and cut expenses.  Some families have already gotten…

COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — Some parents have filed complaints with the Parent-Teacher Association after a former adult film star said she read to children in a classroom at a Los Angeles County elementary school. Sasha Grey, a 23-year-old ex-porn actress who has appeared in mainstream shows like HBO’s “Entourage,” was a guest earlier this month […]