Schools

Police responded to a shooting on Monday at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin.

Reliance on school buses has been waning for years as districts struggle to find drivers and more students attend schools far outside their neighborhoods.

Kirabo Jackson, professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University and former economic advisor to President Biden, discusses how education policy in the U.S. may shift under the new Trump administration.

You can find Claudene Wilson serving meals in the cafeteria, doing repairs and comforting crying students.

Educators at a New Jersey school district are outraged and say they were blindsided by the decision to eliminate nearly 100 jobs the week before Christmas. Families were left asking what happened to the budget and questioned why teachers were hired over the summer, only to learn just weeks into the school year that their positions would be eliminated.

An advocacy group says a Virginia school board has agreed to pay $575,000 in a settlement to a former high school teacher who was fired after he refused to use a transgender student’s pronouns.

Students are struggling to stay engaged in class at a time of poor mental health, shortened attention spans, reduced attendance and worsening grades. At the crux of these challenges? Addiction to cell phones. Cell phone bans are gaining traction around the country, but many say they’re not enough.

Pennsylvania’s Senate has passed legislation to encourage school districts to effectively ban students’ use of cellphones during the school day. The bill passed 45-5 on Wednesday. It would help school districts pay for locking bags after the district creates a policy requiring students to leave their phones in such bags for the whole school day. The bill now goes to...

Pennsylvania’s Senate has passed legislation to encourage school districts to effectively ban students’ use of cellphones during the school day. Some exceptions would be in place.

Many of the survivors said they continue to live with the trauma of the day when 20 first graders and six educators were killed.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced new regulations on Wednesday to improve the quality of school breakfasts and lunches by tightening the limits on salt and sugar.

U.S. agriculture officials announced new nutrition standards for school meals that will limit added sugars for the first time.

The poor schools that won a landmark school funding court case in Pennsylvania last year are prepared to go back to court if the Legislature and governor don’t adequately address shortfalls in the coming months.

NBC10’s Jacqueline London reports on the Children’s Scholarship Fund of Philadelphia surprising families with scholarships to send students to private schools from kindergarten to 8th grade.

School funding is an unresolved area of contention as the Pennsylvania House and Senate returned to end-of-year session.

Black students are more frequently subjected to these removals than their peers.

An eastern Pennsylvania school district has reached a settlement with The Satanic Temple in a lawsuit alleging discrimination against students by barring one of the group’s After School Satan clubs from using a school building. The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday that the Saucon Valley School District would pay $200,000 in attorney’s fees and will allow the club the...

An organizer for the Satan Club says kids who attend will be doing activities that focus on science and rationalization while building empathy and tolerance for all creatures.

A New Jersey school district is facing tough questions after some teachers claimed access had been restricted to important topics like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement — but the superintendent argues it isn’t true.

More students in schools serving low-income communities will be eligible to receive breakfast and lunch at no cost under a rule change announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.