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BELLINGHAM (AP) — Officials say a high school near the Canadian border will remain closed for an undetermined length of time after an electrical explosion caused damage and briefly knocked out power to 600 customers. The Bellingham Herald reports the blast happened Wednesday night, closing all Blaine public schools on Thursday...

SPOKANE (AP) — Randy Dorn is stepping down after eight years as state superintendent of public instruction, and two Democrats are vying to replace him as head of all aspects of the state's K-12 public education system. The nonpartisan job pays $132,000 a year, and oversees some $9 billion in education spending...

East Valley High School's drama club is really amazing. They have put on some outstanding plays since I have lived here. They have another one coming up that I know we will all enjoy.

FREEBURG, Ill. (AP) — Athletes at a southern Illinois high school will keep the nickname Freeburg Midgets, despite the objections of a group representing people with dwarfism who find the name offensive. About 500 people gathered at the Freeburg Community High School late Thursday to urge the school board not to dump the mascot...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Merle Haggard finally has his high school diploma at the age of 78. The Bakersfield Californian reports Bakersfield High School principal David Reese presented Haggard with a diploma Saturday before Haggard's show in Bakersfield...

West Valley High School's Ram Marching Band took every category at the 14th annual Harvest Marching Band Festival held Saturday at Yakima County Stadium.

The Zillah High School class of 2014 is hosting a Crab Feed on Saturday, March 15th at Zillah High School.

The Eisenhower High School Class of 1963 is celebrating their 50 year Reunion on Saturday, August 24th at the Red Lion Inn Garden Terrace Room at 607 E. Yakima Avenue from 7:00 P.M. to Midnight.

What should've been a fun vacation trip from New York to Atlanta turned nightmarish on Monday morning when an airline kicked a group of 101 Yeshiva students and their eight chaperones off a plane for being rambunctious. The school, however, says the incident was blown way out of proportion and now they're fighting back.

"Twerking" is the latest dance craze. And by that we mean Miley Cyrus is quite fond of posting videos of herself doing it. But the administration at Scripps Ranch High School in San Diego are not fond of Twerking. In fact they just suspended 33 students for their own video of the dance, which they claim involves a female  "shaking their hips and bottom in a bouncy up and down motion