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It's that time of year when teens are counting down the final days and hours of high school. Many are bound for college. Some will join the hunt for work during a time of record unemployment and economic malaise. Others are scrambling to make up failed classes in time for commencement ceremonies.

After years of rapid growth and an aggressive building campaign, the Del Mar Union School District faces a new challenge: dramatically uneven enrollment at its eight campuses. A quick look at the latest numbers, updated just last week, reveals the differences.

Young men and women tended to nearly a dozen babies, checking for pulses. Finding none, they pressed two fingers urgently into the little chests. It seemed as if something had gone horribly wrong in a neonatal unit or someone was trying to shape an overwrought episode of “Grey's Anatomy.”

The American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego is threatening to sue Ramona school officials after they told a sixth-grader she couldn't present a report on slain gay rights advocate Harvey Milk to fellow students unless their parents signed permission slips.

The Associated Press-mtvU poll on college student stress, the economy and mental health was conducted April 22 to May 4, 2009. The survey is based on interviews of 2,240 undergraduate students at 40 randomly chosen four-year schools across the country having at least 1,000 undergraduates

May 19, 2009 Even with thousands of teachers statewide facing layoffs, recruitment experts are warning of an impending teacher shortage.

Three years after state lawmakers agreed to spend $200 million to hire 3,000 high school counselors, cash-strapped districts across California are slashing the number of overworked advisers at their schools.

Because teachers will be taking furlough days in the next school year, the Poway school board has revised the dates students will start and finish school. Students will now start school on Aug. 20, two days later than previously scheduled, and end on June 8, 2010, two days earlier than scheduled.

Nine East County school teachers have been named the best in their districts. They're among the 44 teachers in the region who will compete for San Diego County Teacher of the Year honors in the fall.

The high school dropout rate in the San Diego Unified School District plummeted last year to the point where fewer than 1 student in 10 is giving up on school, according to data released yesterday by the California Department of Education.