Centre County Educator Named Pennsylvania's 2012 Teacher of the Year
Education Secretary also Honors 2011 Milken Award Winner, Blue Ribbon Schools HERSHEY, Pa., Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Education Secretary Ron Tomalis last night announced the 2012 Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year, as well as recognized the 2011 Milken Educator Award winner and 14 Blue Ribbon Schools during the Keystone Awards of Excellence banquet in Hershey. Tricia Miller, a literacy coach in Penns Valley Area School District, Centre County, was named the 2012 Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year, the culmination of the evening's events.

Clarke County School District back-to-school events
Due to teacher furloughs, all back-to-school events scheduled for Aug. 3 and 4 have been rescheduled. Below is the revised list of events provided by the Clarke County School District.

Student humanitarians honored
Nineteen students in the Clarke County School District this week won inaugural Eve Carson Awards, humanitarian awards given to students who exemplify the spirit of the 2004 Clarke Central High School valedictorian.

Hundreds head back to school
Students in the Clarke County School District got their first taste of summer last week, but for some of them it, was a short-lived break from classwork. Several hundred students will return to the classroom this week for summer school, either to prepare to retake a state test or to pass a class.

Quartz Hill Elementary School Wins California Casualty's $7,500 School Lounge Makeover
SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- When teachers gather first thing in the morning in their school lounge at Quartz Hill Elementary, they aren't much inspired by the fading color scheme and tired furnishings.

JAM School Program Keeps Over 8 Million School Kids Active
CALABASAS, Calif., Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Health-E-tips, Inc., announces that its JAM School Program (JAM) has reached another milestone and is now in over 17,000 schools, in every state, making health a daily habit, for more than 8.5 million students and school personnel.  JAM provides simple healthier living tips and easy, fun physical activity routines that are authored by fitness experts, professional athletes and students and is available at no cost to every school. (Photo:  ) The program's JAMmin' Minute® resource, a one-minute physical activity routine, has become so popular that it has been the catalyst in creating a movement that has these millions jammin' to bet ...

Orinda Academy, a San Francisco Bay Area College Prep School, Celebrates 30th Anniversary
ORINDA, Calif., Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Orinda Academy, , a private, non-profit day school in Orinda, California for boys and girls in grades 6 through 12, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.  The milestone will be celebrated at a Crab Feed on Saturday, March 3, 2012 from 6:00 p.m.