Elementary School

Given the number of high-profile school shootings last year, both children and adults may be feeling anxiety about school safety. As many kids head back to school, knowing how to speak with them is key in helping to alleviate fear and worry about their personal safety. Here’s where to start. Create a sense of normalcy and return to a routine....

Hate Mondays? Maybe you should consider moving to Colorado. A school district in the Centennial State has cancelled school on Mondays in favor of a four-day school week. But Garfield-like attitudes is not why school district 27J, located outside Denver, made the decision. The district, which serves 18,000 students in Brighton, Commerce City, Henderson, Thornton and Aurora, believes that the...

During LA Lakers exit interviews, Nick Young shares that Kobe Bryant refused to sign his Adidas shoes and threw them in the trash and Metta World Peace talks about Kobe’s speech pregame. Recorded on April 14, 2016

New Jersey is considering a bill requiring students to learn cursive. NBC10’s Keith Jones has the story and shows us how well local residents know cursive.

A suburban school bus driver was arrested after she allegedly purchased beer at a convenience store and drank it while picking up students during a morning bus route.

A group of elementary school students gave back to their teachers and learned life lessons at the same time. NBC10’s Erin Coleman has the story.

A New Jersey bus driver and his wife are speaking out after he was accused of watching porn in front of elementary school students. They insist the entire ordeal was a huge misunderstanding.

A 10-year-old has been charged with fourth-degree sex offense and second-degree assault for an incident at an elementary school, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.

A recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court has upended a longstanding legal roadblock that has given the gun industry far-reaching immunity from lawsuits in the aftermath of mass killings. The court this week allowed families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre to sue the maker of the AR-15 used in the attack. The case against Remington...

Two elementary school girls in Delaware are sending thousands of dollars in books to a school in Ghana, Africa. Zaria and Hailey both love reading and share the gift of literature by reading aloud for viewers on social media.

Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., introduced a bill Wednesday that would lengthen the school day to 6 p.m. to better align with working parents’ schedules. The proposal, first reported by Mother Jones, calls for a three-hour extension of elementary school hours during weekdays and appoints money for the creation of summer programs and activities when school is not in...

Lower Merion School District is debating changing school start times. High School students would start at 8:25 a.m. instead of 7:30 a.m.

Nearly a million children could lose their automatic eligibility for free school lunches under a Trump administration proposal that would reduce the number of people who get food stamps. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released an analysis that says as many as 982,000 children could be affected by the change. About half would have to pay a reduced price...

Authorities evacuated an elementary school in Montana on Tuesday after officials found what they thought were the remnants of a homemade bomb that exploded, but it turned out to be a plastic bottle filled with nuts and bolts left in the schoolyard. School officials in Helena made the discovery shortly before classes began at Rossiter Elementary School. They blocked off...

Haneef Payne was arrested for allegedly being involved in a caught on camera shootout near high school and elementary school students in Chester City, Pennsylvania.

It’s been a wild week for former firefighter and Army veteran Hakim Laws. He helped rescue children from a Philadelphia fire and then went viral after taking a jab at Eagles Wide Receiver Nelson Agholor while being interviewed about his heroics. Now Agholor wants to invite him to the next Eagles home game. NBC Sports Philadelphia’s John Clark caught...

A new study finds that the carving out of new school districts in the South is increasingly dividing white students from their black and Latino peers, reinforcing segregation. The study examines 18 districts created since 2000 across Alabama, around Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and around Memphis, Tennessee. The study found that an increasing share of segregation between black and white students...

Some parents are accusing the Cherry Hill school district of “lunch shaming” due to the district’s proposal of refusing school lunch to students who owe more than $20 in overdue lunch money.