Each year, thousands of Palm Beach County high school students skip college entrance exams and hurt their chances for higher education.

The dispute began innocently enough as a disagreement between parents over the menu at a masquerade ball for home-schooled teenagers.

ONE of the UK's most highly acclaimed theatres, The Donmar Warehouse, makes a very welcome return to the Hall for Cornwall with Serenading Louie from April 13-17. Friends since college, Carl and Alex are struggling to deal with the harsh realities of adulthood as they enter their 30s.

It's a rare phenomenon in the world of college admissions, unfamiliar even to many counselors who have been in the business for years.

Local educators are reacting to the proposed overhaul of the nation's key education law.