WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's challenge in the art of connecting with an audience has always been to meet the high expectations. For challenger Mitt Romney it has been to exceed the low ones.......

CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago public school board president says talks with the teachers union have been called off as the clock winds down to avert the city's first teachers strike in a quarter century.......

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Parents who send their children to private schools in California are much more likely to opt out of immunizations than their public school counterparts, an Associated Press analysis has found, and not even the recent re-emergence of whooping cough has halted the downward trajectory of vaccinations among these...

CHICAGO (AP) -- With Chicago teachers poised to go on strike for the first time in a quarter century, parents spent Sunday worrying about how much their children's education might suffer and where their kids will go while they're at work.......