How to help homeless students year-round
Come Christmas time, most children put together lengthy wish lists for toys and goodies for Santa to deliver.
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California 5-year-old pays lunch debt for 123 students
A 5-year-old student at an elementary school in Vista, California, collected enough money to pay off the negative lunch balances of 123 students at her school.
Ellen DeGeneres, Michelle Obama give to school
Michelle Obama is spreading some holiday cheer, surprising students and teachers of an elementary school in Washington with a gift of $100,000, computers and a new basketball court courtesy of TV host Ellen DeGeneres.
Kindergarten class shows up for boy's adoption hearing
A boy in Michigan showed up at the courthouse in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Thursday for an adoption hearing with his foster parents, and he had a crowd of unusual supporters.
Report: Over 6M middle, high schoolers used tobacco in 2019
More than 6 million middle and high school students were currently using tobacco product in 2019, according to National Youth Tobacco Survey data released Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
2 injured in 2nd Wisconsin high school shooting this week
A Wisconsin school resource officer on Tuesday shot and wounded a student who stabbed him during an altercation, police said. It was the second shooting to take place in a high school in the state in two days.
49er donates $7,500 to help pay off school lunch debt
Richard Sherman is known for his work on the football field, but the San Francisco 49ers' cornerback is also doing important work off it.
What one group of refugee girls is thankful for this Thanksgiving
Along a short hallway on the upper floor of Decatur Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, a blue banner stretches across the wall, packed with scrawled messages of thanks and words swelling with appreciation.
13-year-old arrested for allegedly threatening school shooting
Authorities arrested a 13-year-old boy and seized an assault-style rifle in connection with a reported threat at a middle school, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.
2 boys shot dead while sitting in a van
Two boys were shot dead while sitting in a van at an elementary school parking lot in Northern California, police said.
ACLU: Sacramento school violated free speech
An elementary school art lesson meant to encourage students to explore activism resulted in a First Amendment violation when the teacher censored students' Black Lives Matter posters, the ACLU claims.
Saugus High School shooting was unpreventable
The scenario played out in Kaitlin Holt's mind many times before a 16-year-old student shot himself after killing two classmates and wounding three others at Saugus High School in Southern California.
Reports: At least 2 injured in New Jersey high school football game shooting
Police have charged five men in connection with a shooting at a New Jersey high school football game that injured one adult and two minors.
School staff members charged in death of California boy with autism
Three ex-employees of a shuttered Northern California alternative school each face an involuntary manslaughter charge after a 2018 incident in which an autistic student died after being restrained, a prosecutor says.
Chicago students return to class after 11-day teacher strike
Some 300,000 Chicago students returned to their schools Friday after an 11-day teachers' strike ended with a deal that will make
DeVos says lower test scores show 'student achievement crisis'
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Wednesday blamed Washington overreach, high-paid school administrators and layers of bureaucracy for American students' lower scores on the Nation's Report Card, pointing to the scores as proof that the United States
Here are the movies and shows coming to HBO Max
HBO Max is debuting in May 2020 with a vast library of TV shows and films. But it will cost you. At $14.99 a month, it is so far the most expensive of the major streaming platforms.
Classes canceled again Monday as Chicago teachers continue strike
First, the good news: Chicago Public Schools has reached an initial deal with a union it's been sparring with for weeks.
Girl, 11, charged after school teacher stabbed in Australia
An 11-year-old girl has been charged with wounding and knife possession after a teacher was stabbed at an elementary school in Australia on Monday.
Lunch debt policy in New Jersey sparks national attention
A New Jersey school district has become a lightning rod for criticism because of a policy that would allow school administrators to ban students from school activities if they owed the district lunch money.
Judge says runners can't compete during teacher strike
A Chicago judge ruled Friday that cross-country runners cannot compete in a Saturday meet while their educators are on strike.
Lopez, Rodriguez donate year's worth of food to elementary students
Students at Jacksboro Elementary School will have food to eat for the next year thanks to Jennifer Lopez and her fiancé Alex Rodriguez.
Chicago teachers begin strike
Moselean Parker's 25 years of simmering frustration have boiled over.
Chicago businesses help during teacher strike
About 25,000 educators are on strike in Chicago, forcing the country's third biggest school district to cancel classes and leaving about 300,000 students and their families to figure out where they will go. Many Chicago children depend on the breakfast and lunch provided at school as two of their daily meals.
