SCHOOLS

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.

The parents of a 5-year-old Long Island boy are furious after their kindergartener was able to walk out of his elementary school, undetected, and walked nearly a third of a mile to his house. It was his parents who learned he had left school.

Hundreds of school systems around the country have adopted four-day weeks in recent years, mostly in rural and western parts of the U.S. Districts cite cost savings and advantages for teacher recruitment.

The altercation happened Thursday after the Minor and Jackson-Olin High School football game in Birmingham.

A collision involving a city bus and a school bus at an intersection in Racine, Wisconsin, was caught on camera Wednesday.

The school year just got underway and there’s already a shake-up in the schedule. Schools in multiple communities across New England will be closed or let out early because of the heat. In Providence, Rhode Island, 19 of the city’s public schools are closed Thursday, while the rest will remain open. Classes have been canceled for the rest of...

Some schools across New England have announced closings and early dismissals because of the hot weather.

Brockton’s mayor announced a $14 million deficit in the school district’s budget for the fiscal year.

The committee overseeing the public school district in Brockton, Massachusetts, found out it’s short $14 million for the fiscal year just days before the start of classes, the mayor said Thursday night. Despite the large deficit, Mayor Robert Sullivan said, classes will begin next week. He made the announcement after a four-hour executive session — which wasn’t attended by Superintendent…

A Tulsa-area school district is in its second week of bomb threats after Walters shared a Libs of TikTok post about a school librarian on social media.

Perry Chronister surprised his 7-year-old son, Eli, on his first day of school after returning from a yearlong deployment by disguising himself as the school mascot.

Georgia Republican lawmakers passed a law to make it easier to challenge school library books as inappropriate, but few people are using it.

With kids preparing to go back to school, parents may find themselves struggling with what to put in their lunch boxes.

North College Hill City School District outside Cincinnati, Ohio, has become the first in the state to go to a four-day week for in-person learning.

Children are heading back to classes and fall sports practices, and four more states are expecting their K-12 schools to keep transgender girls off their girls sports teams.

Students have been absent at record rates nationwide since schools reopened after COVID-forced closures.

Uplift Legal Funding named the best and worst states for aspiring lawyers to begin a career based on academic success rates, job prospects and other factors.

Nine states have passed legislation that preserves a federal pandemic-era policy making free school meals available to all students, regardless of income.

Sam’s Club is easing back-to-school shopping for teachers with its new membership deal.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency is helping Ukrainian students with online education by providing computers and educational materials.