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Vera Ribeiro-Menezes, 70, of Danbury, was arrested on Tuesday ... that's within walking distance of Head Start of Northern Fairfield County and Saint Peter School. Just 11 days earlier, detectives had ...

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed a bill banning 11 food additives from public schools. The bill, supported by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., aims to reduce children ...

following an investigation into four handwritten bomb threat notes found at Danbury’s Pembroke Elementary School between November 2022 and February 2023. The notes were found in a bathroom at ...

How Much Does an Elementary School Teacher Make? Elementary School Teachers made a median salary of $63,680 in 2023. The best-paid 25% made $81,480 that year, while the lowest-paid 25% made $51,260.

The parents of a third-grader who brought a gun to a Spotsylvania County elementary school, and accidentally fired it in a classroom, have been charged with child endangerment and firearms violations.

Spotsylvania County authorities said a gun went off while inside a third-grader’s backpack at Lee Hill Elementary School on Monday morning. No one was injured. The parents of a third-grader who ...

Federal funds comprise about 6 percent of New York’s K-12 school funding. Federal funding made up about $2.2 billion of the New York City Public Schools’ budget for fiscal 2025. In the demand ...

equity and inclusion practices in public schools, despite the administration’s threats to terminate federal education funding. Daniel Morton-Bentley, counsel and deputy commissioner of the state ...

By Michael C. Bender Reporting from Washington The Trump administration threatened on Thursday to withhold federal funding from public schools unless state education officials verified the ...

Now, they are most likely to become even more pressing, after the Trump administration notified all 50 states on Thursday that public schools could lose federal funding if they engage in the use ...