Schools

OGDEN — Students from four elementary schools in Ogden School District got their eyes opened to an established art form — marionettes.

FORT HOOD, Texas -- Public schools everywhere will be affected by the government's automatic budget cuts, but few may feel the funding pinch faster than those on and around military bases.

School districts with military ties from coast-to-coast are bracing for increased class sizes and delayed building repairs. Others already have axed sports teams and even eliminated teaching positions, but still may have to tap savings just to make it through year's end.

KAYSVILLE — What better way to rev kids up for reading than by showing them how important reading is for race car drivers from Rocky Mountain Raceways?

Waiting in line for the bus, a Pennsylvania kindergartener tells her pals she's going to shoot them with a Hello Kitty toy that makes soap bubbles. In Maryland, two 6-year-old boys pretend their fingers are guns during a playground game of cops and robbers. In Massachusetts, a 5-year-old boy attending an after-school program makes a gun out of Legos and points it at other students while "simulating the sound of gunfire," as one school official put it.

SALT LAKE CITY — A local lawmaker’s bill forcing school districts to do a seismic study on old school buildings in the event of a bond election to build new structures passed the House on second review.

HB 278, sponsored by Rep. Gage Froerer, R-Huntsville, cleared the House on Friday and now goes to the Senate for consideration. Earlier this week, the bill lost by a single vote.

CLINTON — As 30 important guests pulled into the parking lot of the Clinton Fire Department on Tuesday, firefighters and police officers announced their arrival with lights flashing and sirens blaring.