CHICO — Kennedy Curtis, a junior at Chico High School, has considered herself a motivated student determined to do well in all her classes. However, midway through the third week of the school year, ...

When Nevada high schooler Simone Gardella scored a zero on a short writing assignment early last fall, she thought the grade was inaccurate. But she couldn't find out what she might have done wrong.

Ahead of the Williamson County Board of Education's vote at a special-called meeting Wednesday to approve two new personnel for the online program, over two dozen concerned parents picketed outside ...