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Washington’s public and private schools will soon need to take new steps to curb children’s exposure to lead in drinking water.

For the past six years, Shari Daniels has tried to be the person she wishes she had in her life as a student.

New York City is ditching its traditional summer school model, opening programming to all students, not just those who have fallen behind with coursework, officials announced Tuesday.

"I was going to go at least four more years, until I turned 65," she said. "And possibly after." The coronavirus pandemic changed everything.

Students who are learning English as a second language have priority to return to in-person class at some school districts in California, but many are still staying home because their parents fear the risk of Covid-19 infection is too high.

This week’s violence at a Knoxville high school is not only the first fatal shooting inside of a U.S. school since the pandemic began a year ago. It’s also the first since Tennessee poured millions of dollars into fortifying its…

South Carolina is spending $24 million from a legal settlement over emissions with Volkswagen on more than 200 new buses that run on propane.

The newest outpost of the College Board, the American standardized-testing organization, lies nearly 7,300 miles east of the nonprofit organization’s headquarters in New York City. Opened in 2019 in the Mahrauli section of Delhi, the four-person office of College Board…

Some of Los Angeles Unified’s youngest students on Tuesday entered campuses for the first time in more than a year, as California’s largest school district slowly reopens for in-person instruction.

Olivia Weisinger, never a particularly political person, found herself outside the Comal ISD board meeting in Central Texas late last month, rallying parents, students, and teachers to voice their anger over the school board’s decision to eliminate the district’s mask mandate.

In the season of the Arkansas Legislature, several education bills were signed into law. The latest of these will give teachers a raise and make Arkansas a competitive recruiting state.

You’re a state education official. It’s August 2021. A big TV news station has given you a few minutes of air time to talk to the public about the upcoming school year after all of the stress and heartache caused…

Burlington Area School District officials failed to report, investigate and respond to racist incidents for years, the state Department of Public Instruction has found, and ordered district officials to address its “racially hostile environment.”

The state's Board of Regents on Monday called for greater emphasis on "diversity, equity and inclusion" in school curricula and hiring, but provided few details on how long the effort might take or how its goals might be enforced.

Philadelphia students in grades six through nine can return to some in-person learning this year, the school district announced Monday, unveiling the third and last phase of its hybrid learning plan for the 2020-21 school year.

Schools and colleges across New York State will be allowed to hold graduation ceremonies for students this spring, with restrictions depending on type of venue or its capacity, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Monday.