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The University Small Business Patent Procedures Act is under increasing scrutiny by swelling ranks of critics, who charge that it has distorted the fundamental mission of universities.

After three years of delays, the students of Hamilton Avenue Elementary will finally get to move into their newly renovated school this fall — but that may not happen until the end of October.

As the cost of diesel fuel has soared well past what many districts budgeted for last spring, school officials are rethinking their transportation needs.

What students about to take out their first loan should know.

What poor kids really need can’t be taught in a classroom.

Nearly a year after New York City’s first report cards for public schools were issued, the majority of the principals who ran the 52 schools labeled as failing remain in place.

Speakers opposed to the expansion of Columbia University in the western part of Harlem linked the university’s plan with gentrification taking place elsewhere in Harlem.

The attorney general is preparing a lawsuit against Goal Financial, charging that the lender broke laws by luring borrowers with cash and gifts and that it misled consumers about loan terms.

The gift to the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard was the biggest so far from Eli and Edythe Broad, who are giving away a multibillion-dollar fortune.

The panel of education experts recommended that the law be renewed but amended to limit City Hall’s power.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced regulations that are meant to combat bullying in city schools that is based on bias.

Two constitutional amendments intended to help Florida’s school voucher programs withstand legal challenges cannot appear on the November ballot, the State Supreme Court ruled.

Among the one million-plus students and 80,000 teachers who started classes Tuesday at 1,499 schools around New York City, some were attending for the first time.

More than 1,000 Chicago public school students boycotted the first day of classes in a protest over school financing and instead rode buses to try to enroll in a wealthy suburban district.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s allies are trying to renew a law that gave New York City’s mayor control of schools.

Record numbers of students turning up for classes this fall are homeless or poor enough to qualify for free meals.

A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, resigned from an admissions committee, saying he suspected officials were illegally admitting more black students.

One of New Jersey’s first charter schools went looking for some of its first students to see if their early experience at a charter school made a difference.

Many schools both poor and prosperous are asking parents to purchase more, and more particular, school supplies.

A school board in north-central Texas has drawn attention by letting some teachers carry concealed weapons.