SCHOOLS

You might know Donovan Mitchell for his performance in the 2021 NBA playoffs, tearing it up for the Utah Jazz. But off the court, Mitchell has a soft spot for teachers – maybe that’s because his mom has been a preschool teacher for years. Mitchell talked with NBCLX about social justice and a $1 million donation Clorox is making to...

An entire fourth grade class is in quarantine after testing positive for coronavirus in Bridgewater, and school administrators say the highly contagious delta variant is to blame.

With students going back to school, Massachusetts education officials are providing information on new coronavirus cases.

Massachusetts schools reported 1,420 positive COVID-19 cases among students and staff this week, according to state education officials. The state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released the numbers Thursday in its weekly COVID-19 report, the first of the 2021-22 school year. A total of 1,230 students and 190 employees tested positive between Sept. 13 and Sept. 15. In future weeks,…

As many towns in the U.S. become more diverse, school districts are hiring diversity coordinators, holding listening sessions for students of color. But those districts have also faced a backlash from parents who decry inclusivity efforts as “critical race theory.” An NBC News analysis found those districts seeing backlash have diversified quickly, reporter Tyler Kingkade explains.

Robyn and John McCarthy’s son has asthma but has to go to school in-person in Miami-Dade County, Florida. There has already been a COVID-19 exposure in class. But the only virtual option available would require giving up a coveted spot in a prestigious magnet school. “It’s basically like if you go in person, we expose him to a dangerous deadly...

The higher education minister in the new Taliban government says women can study in universities, including at post-graduate levels, but that classrooms will be gender-segregated and that Islamic dress is compulsory

As the towers of the World Trade Center fell on 9/11, children across the country absorbed the news in school, and teachers attempted to reassure them while coping with their own grief and fear. LX News Host Ashley Holt shares a personal story about how the tragedy of 9/11 hit home for young students and their teachers.

Over the next 20 years, the goal is to get the materials in every school. He said it is the best way to make sure those too young to remember never forget.

For years, a Massachusetts nonprofit has been teaching high school students about 9/11, whose 20th anniversary is this weekend, in partnership with a man who lost a brother in the attacks.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited a Worcester preschool to discuss the challenges parents are facing as the pandemic drags on, including rising child care costs.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi toured a Worcester child care facility Thursday in a visit meant to highlight the importance of affordable child care. The California Democrat was joined by U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Massachusetts, and also met with local parents. During her appearance at the Rainbow Child Development Center she touted the recently approved investments in the child tax...

The vehicle wasn’t in park — and started to roll forward onto a sidewalk where students were standing, officials say. The parent wasn’t anywhere near the car.

Join us in Supporting Our Schools, a donation and supply drive, as Boston stations of NBC and Telemundo collect much-needed funds and classroom necessities for schools across New England through Oct. 3.

This all happened in the middle of the afternoon… In a busy area… And in front of multiple surveillance cameras. Take a look at this surveillance video from a tow truck. Eyewitnesses say it shows a man firing several shots into a Honda accord… Killing a man in his 30-s. The bullets also blew out the driver’s side...

As the Melrose School District deals with a COVID outbreak, other districts are worried that the same could happen in their communities.

As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approached, we asked Millennials and members of Gen Z for their questions about the events of that day and their aftermath. In this installment of the series, we asked someone who survived 9/11 as a high school student to discuss the trauma of that day and its lasting effects — and how it compares...

The rate of hospitalization for COVID-19 among kids ages 0-17 rose five-fold from late June to the middle of August as the delta variant took hold in the United States, the CDC said Friday. Based on data from 14 states — including New York and Connecticut — the CDC said the COVID-associated hospitalization rate for children and adolescents the week…

School’s back in session for Massachusetts’ new year, and masks are back as well. Framingham is just one of many districts with school starting up Wednesday, with the pandemic not yet in the rear-view mirror. “The masks are annoying,” said Nathan Thurber, a senior at Framingham High. “It gets pretty hot in there but it definitely makes us safe,...

When students return to Massachusetts classrooms this week, they’ll have to mask up and follow COVID guidelines.