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The Prime Minister and the Education secretary have announced that all schools in England will be closed from Friday.

Several states are closing schools as tourist destinations become ghost towns and supplies fly off store shelves amid fears of the Chinese coronavirus.

Italy’s Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina announced Wednesday afternoon that due to the coronavirus outbreak, all schools and universities in the country will be closed at least until March 15.

Several Kansas City schools have canceled their classes Wednesday so their students can attend the 2020 Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade.

President Trump marked National Religious Freedom Day by issuing a guidance letter to schools on students’ Constitutional right to prayer.

Almost two-thirds of Britons are still concerned about their country’s high levels of immigration, citing pressure on the National Health Service (NHS) and schools as especially worrying.

According to data from the new Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study, immigrants in Austria still perform far below their native counterparts. In Germany, 20 per cent of 15-year-olds can barely read.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is proposing to extend existing school days in order to better match up with the average adult’s workweek, Mother Jones reports.

French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer revealed cases of a dozen Muslim public school teachers who have been radicalised, along with a far greater number of radicalised pupils.

Pupils at a high school in Slough have accused their teachers of peddling anti-Brexit “propaganda”, expressing concern that their biased, political views could “mould the minds” of younger children who are yet to form their own opinions.

Police attended a protest of some 150 parents and children who were demonstrating against a high school’s ‘gender neutral’ uniform.

School examiners failed a 16-year-old vegetarian for remarking on her negative view of halal slaughter, claiming inaccurately that she had made “obscene racial comments… throughout an exam paper”.

Kentucky students will return to school this fall seeing prominently-displayed signs featuring the national motto.

English schools will need to find almost 420,000 extra school places over the next decade, due in part to a baby boom among migrant mothers.

A Scottish 17-year-old who was suspended for filming his teacher telling him that he could not say in class that there are only two genders has been told he cannot return to his school.

Schoolgirls at Appleton Academy in Bradford, West Yorkshire, have been ordered to wear “gender neutral” trousers instead of skirts at the start of the next academic year.

A Scottish teenager who was kicked out of class for asserting that there are only two genders has reportedly been suspended from school for three weeks.

A Scottish 17-year-old school pupil was allegedly removed from class for failing to be “inclusive” by insisting that there are only two genders.

Donald Trump’s immigration reforms are cutting the flow of taxpayer funds to the American teachers and schools that welcome the children of illegal immigrants, according to media reports.

Ryan Kirkpatrick used his own allowance money to pay his entire third grade class’s outstanding lunch money at West Park Elementary School.

A 42-year-old gay headteacher who was fired for having sex with two 17-year-old boys he met on Grindr has won a discrimination case against his former employer.

A school in Slough will no longer rent space to a madrassa after it was revealed it taught Muslim girls they should have children instead of careers and hosted speakers at events who had described non-Muslims as “pigs.”

Around one in four students in Swedish schools now come from a foreign background as schools across the country are becoming more and more segregated, according to a new report.

A six-year-old girl, the only German speaker in her entire class, has claimed she was viciously beaten by foreign-background students and even cut with a sharp object by another student.

More than 4,000 people have signed a local petition demanding an end to schools serving Sharia law-compliant “non-stun” halal meat “without the knowledge or consent of the majority of pupils and parents”.

(AP) — One of the first big storms of the season moved across the eastern half of the country, leaving five people dead and closing schools as the freakish weather brought snow as far south as Alabama.

In what is being described as a “messy mix” of snow, sleet, and freezing rain, winter appears to have come early to Washington, D.C., causing commute delays and school cancelations across the nation’s capital.

The Scottish education system is to become the first in the world where primary and secondary schools are required in the curriculum to promote LGBT identity and lifestyles.

Media investigations have found Italian school textbooks have a totally pro-mass migration slant, which has been deemed “migratory propaganda.”

Parents have reacted with anger after it emerged that pupils at an English school had been sharing classes with a “30-year-old” asylum seeker who is now being investigated by the Home Office.

The leaders of an “Islamic learning centre,” that taught only Muslim were saved by God, have become the first-ever in the UK convicted for operating an illegal and unregistered school in England.

Around one in 10 UK councils are supplying sharia law-compliant halal meat to schools produced in a way considered cruel by all major animal rights groups.

A study claims that schools in Milan with high proportions of migrant pupils are seeing “white flight” while teachers beg the government to help with increasing numbers of children who do not speak Italian.

Marks and Spencer has been criticised for selling hijabs as part of its school uniform range, with anti-extremism campaigner Majid Nawaz condemning the leading British department store for “facilitating medievalism”.

The UK government is reportedly set to give private primary schools an opt-out on controversial requirements meaning young children have to be taught about homosexual lifestyles in a bid to encourage “tolerance”.

Six asylum seekers in the Italian city of Savona have been arrested for attempting to sell drugs to children outside schools in the city and posing as minors.