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The $1.5 billion of student loan debt the Biden administration has canceled so far isn’t necessarily related to broader forgiveness.

With many calling for student loan forgiveness, here’s a look at where members of Congress stand on the issue.

A student was taken to a hospital with minor injuries Thursday morning after a car crashed into an elementary school in Milford, Massachusetts. Police said the vehicle crashed into Memorial Elementary School around 8:30 a.m. The victim was taken to Milford Hospital “out of an abundance of caution with minor injuries,” Superintendent Kevin McIntyre said. McIntyre said there was minor…

A Boston College student was hospitalized Friday after being struck by an MBTA Commuter Rail train in Newton, Massachusetts.

State officials are investigating after a first-grade student wandered away from his Massachusetts elementary school and into a waste treatment plant during school hours. The Department of Children and Families said the brief disappearance happened on Oct. 21 after the boy left the Bradford Elementary School’s playground through a section of fence that was downed by a tree.

A school official says a middle school teacher accused of cutting off several inches of a student’s hair after telling her to stop playing with it has resigned. Bob Gadomski, superintendent of the Somersworth school district, confirmed the resignation this week, Seacoastonline.com reports

An Emerson College student has died after he hit his head during an altercation in Boston this weekend. Daniel Hollis underwent emergency surgery after arriving at a hospital unresponsive following the incident, Hollis’ family said in a blog post Tuesday. School officials sent a letter to the Emerson community Wednesday confirming Hollis had died.

An Emerson College student is not expected to regain consciousness after he hit his head during a “scuffle” in Boston this weekend, according to his family. Daniel Hollis underwent emergency surgery after arriving at a hospital unresponsive following the incident, Hollis’ family said in a blog post Tuesday. He remained in critical condition Tuesday but has damage to his brain...

The parents of Otto Warmbier have filed a claim for a seized North Korean cargo ship, seeking to collect on a multimillion-dollar judgment awarded in the American college student’s death. The Warmbiers filed court papers Wednesday in New York federal court saying they have a right to the assets after North Korea failed to respond to a wrongful death claim...

The parents of Otto Warmbier have filed a claim for a seized North Korean cargo ship, seeking to collect on a multimillion-dollar judgment awarded in the American college student’s death. The Warmbiers filed court papers Wednesday in New York federal court saying they have a right to the assets after North Korea failed to respond to a wrongful death claim...

Student unions from two Hong Kong universities said Friday that they have turned down invitations from city leader Carrie Lam for talks about the recent unrest over her proposal to allow the extradition of suspects to mainland China. The invitations followed a pledge by Lam to do a better job of listening to the voices of young people. Student leaders...

High schoolers in Vermont’s capital city, Montpelier, were honored Monday for their work to prevent sexual assaults and other forms of sexual violence.

Jack Thurston reports from Vermont, where a student group at Montpelier High School received an award at a conference on crime victim services.

A post-doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a project that can analyze brain activity and sort users into a Hogwarts house. MIT Media Lab student Nataliya Kosmyna says her “Thinking Cap” project is made of noninvasive electrodes that capture a person’s brain activity and then uses machine learning to detect what a user is imagining. The...

Manchester, New Hampshire police arrested a sixth-grade Parkside school teacher after a three-day investigation revealed extensive inappropriate communication between the teacher and a student. Jennifer Glidden, 50, of Exeter, exchanged more than 100 emails with a student who police say was under the age of 16, according to police.

A New Hampshire teacher was arrested after allegedly sending inappropriate emails to a student.

A Muslim girl in Massachusetts has received hundreds of letters of support after receiving threatening notes at her elementary school. The Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said that as of Thursday, it had received more than 500 notes from across the country for the 10-year-old.

School and town officials in Framingham, Massachusetts hosted a press conference Wednesday to address the two disturbing notes that threatened a 10-year-old Muslim student. “There’s absolutely no place for hate in our schools,” Framingham public schools Superintendent Robert Tremblay said. “There’s no place for that in our community and this is a community problem.”