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A study by the Boston University School of Medicine suggests high crime in gun-controlled states may be due to lax laws in states with fewer gun controls.

To protect their students from mass-shooters, a Pennsylvania school district spent $1,800 to arm all 500 of its teachers with a tiny, 16-inch baseball bat.

Chicago Public Schools is in the process of building a $70 million public school campus on more than 38,000 unmarked graves.

24,000 e-mail threats sent to 400 schools in the U.K. seem to have been the result of friction between players on a Minecraft multiplayer game server.

President Donald Trump plans to meet with interested parties at the White House to discuss preventing school shootings in America.

The government is too politically correct to help schools attempting to ban Islamic hijabs, leaving teachers “alone, isolated and vulnerable”, the former head of Ofsted has said.

A £1500-a-year Muslim girls school has been given the inspectorates lowest raking, after a series of failings including not providing toilet paper for “cultural” reasons.

A Louisiana mother is going viral after she came up with a unique idea to punish her teenage son for getting suspended from school.

A father has refused to allow his 12-year-old daughter to do a school homework assignment – which is “in line with the National Curriculum” – asking her to write a letter to her family telling them she has converted to Islam.

A Christian family is preparing to sue a school for allowing children to change their ‘gender identity’ on a daily basis, and for implying parents who oppose are bigoted and “transphobic”.

A new Channel 4 documentary shows British teachers telling pupils there are “a lot of similarities between Hitler and Trump”, and suggesting the most important people to look after following the Manchester Arena terror bombing are Muslim pupils.

LONDON (AP) — Boys at a British high school have found a novel way around strict uniform rules banning shorts, as the country swelters through a heatwave. The schoolboys at Isca Academy in the southwestern city of Exeter donned skirts

A member of UKIP’s youth wing has been labelled “far right” by his school and reported to the Government’s PREVENT de-radicalisation programme, which is designed to stop “young people from being drawn into terrorism”.

The Superintendent of Alexandria City Public Schools has announced that all schools will be closed on Wednesday after some 300 staff members in the district requested the day off to take part in the A Day Without a Woman protest being staged in the U.S. and elsewhere as part of International Women’s Day.

“Solano County is warning people about an active case of tuberculosis [TB] on the campus of Armijo High School” in Fairfield, California, KOVR TV in Sacramento reported in its February 16 evening newscast.

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian police said Thurday they had arrested a female teacher for making statements supportive of the Islamic State extremist group.

Teachers in California are struggling to calm children down about the election of Donald Trump, after failing to teach them about democracy.

An 11-year old boy was assaulted by several classmates in his Texas classroom, after he said he had supported Donald Trump in a school mock-election.

JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority has defended its decision to name a school after the mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, calling Israel “deluded” for demanding that Palestinians not honor “martyrs.”

TEL AVIV – The Jewish director of an elite school in Moscow has resigned following accusations that a former history teacher at his school had sex with teenage female students before fleeing to Israel.

Parents at a school in Everett, WA after school bus footage was released of an April incident on a hot school bus that resulted in a girl passing out, a Fox 8 report says. With temperatures topping out around 80 degrees, the

Eleven months after California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) pressured the San Diego Unified School District to change the name of San Diego’s Robert E. Lee Elementary, school officials are pushing forward with the change, and despite calls from the public to keep the name.

President Barack Obama defended his decision to release a rule forcing schools to allow students to use their bathroom of choice regardless of gender.

A Scottish school where every single one the 222 students were born abroad is appealing for extra money, as it struggles to teach the children who cannot speak English. At Annette Street primary school in Glasgow, 181 of the school’s 222 students

Sen. Ted Cruz is facing an uphill battle in New York.

According to new government backed plans, schools will be able to apply for £30,000 grants to plug so-called ‘diversity gaps’. After receiving the money, they will be obliged to promote members of staff who have benefited from the money, regardless of their

According to a report by 11Alive, an attack on an unsuspecting seventh grade student in Georgia left him with a broken nose. The 12-year-old said the attack came out of nowhere, as he was sitting in his desk when it

Earlier this month, administrators at Mercer Island School District in Washington State felt compelled to do something for their children this year by banning the playground game of tag, because it just might make some kids feel bad, they said.

The hubbub surrounding Irving, Texas 14-year-old MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohammed – the kid who brought a homemade clock-in-a-case that looked like a fake bomb to school – continues apace, with the President of the United States inviting him to the White House, and 2016 Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg tweeting out encouragement.

One of Britain’s most prestigious schools is considering banning homework to combat depression among its students. Cheltenham Ladies’ College is set to consider dropping homework – known at the school as “prep” – in response to an “anxiety epidemic” among