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Tom Wolf, the scion of one of the oldest and most successful families in York County, won a first term in 2014 by making Republican Gov. Tom Corbett the first incumbent to go down in defeat since Pennsylvania in the 1970s began allowing governors to serve a second term.

It’s never too early to start teaching children to be antiracist, said Brittany Smith, a pre-kindergarten teacher from Atlantic City, New Jersey. Steps as simple as buying books that feature diverse faces is a good start.

When New Jersey closed public schools, a new challenge presented itself. How to feed students who rely on free or reduced lunches. Teachers at one school are volunteering to answer that challenge. NBC Sports Philadelphia’s Danny Pommells speaks to a teacher and Eagles cheerleader who’s doing her part to help students in need.

A new type of teacher is showing up in classrooms across Delaware. It’s name is Zenbo. NBC10’s Tim Furlong shows us how it’s helping students learn important lessons.

An eighth grade social studies teacher had students act as if they were picking cotton and lay on a dirty floor while pretending to be slaves

A New Jersey school district has cleared a teacher of wrongdoing for having students pretend to be slaves as part of a history lesson. A spokesman for Toms River Regional School District said in a statement issued late Thursday that it was not the intention of eighth-grade social studies teacher Lawrence Cuneo to offend his students, the Asbury Park Press…

When Dese’Rae Stage interviews survivors of suicide attempts for a website she created, she asks herself a question news reporters may not always consider: How much did it hurt? A survivor herself, she wants to be sure that readers of her website “Live Through This” come away with a real picture of suicide — no romance, no facile explanations and...

Teachers in Philadelphia don’t make a lot of money — between $46,000 and $84,000 — and it’s hard-earned: they deal with occasional in-school violence, constant pressure to improve test scores and a high-rate of turnover among their peers.

Twelve former students of a man convicted of sexually abusing them when he was their teacher at a San Francisco Bay Area school will receive a combined $10.9 million to settle a lawsuit against the school, an attorney said.

A teacher at a Montgomery County Christian school is accused of having a sexual relationship with one of his students. NBC10’s Rosemary Connors has the details.

When Doña Milagros Matos Marquez and her husband Don Cruz Marquez received the news that Hurricane María was approaching Trujillo Alto in Puerto Rico, they expected some rain and maybe a little bit of wind, like with previous storms. Instead María blew their roof off once the storm made landfall exactly two years ago on Friday. In the months after...

A Virginia teacher was charged with assault after he allegedly grabbed an 11-year-old girl by the ankles and held her upside down.

A substitute teacher berated a Utah fifth grader after he said during a pre-Thanksgiving lesson that he was thankful he’s finally going to be adopted by his two dads, the parents said. The boy’s classmates said the teacher told him, “that’s nothing to be thankful for” and lectured the 30 kids in the class about her views on homosexuality. She...

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.

Nearly 80 children from a North Philadelphia school were displaced this week after asbestos was detected in the building’s boiler room, according to a letter shared with parents.

Police in the Dominican Republic have arrested six people in connection with the death of American teacher Patricia Ann Anton, who was found strangled in her apartment last week. Anton, 63, was robbed and killed in Puerto Plata, on the country’s northern coast, Dominican national police said. Police announced her death Nov. 12. National police on Sunday said six men,...

Delaware State Police say the death of a woman whose body was pulled from a river in Wilmington this summer has been ruled a homicide.

With a combined 211 years between them, Charlotte and John Henderson, from Austin, Texas, have been named the oldest living couple by Guinness World Records. John Henderson is 106 — he turns 107 next month — and Charlotte Henderson is 105. They will be married 80 years on Dec. 15. The pair met in 1934 as students at the University...

Of the 500 Philadelphia teachers polled by NBC10, 42% of them said they’ve been physically assaulted by a student. NBC10 investigative reporter Mitch Blacher speaks with teachers about the violence they deal with and finding a solution to the problem.