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When San Benito, Texas, school leaders learned of an influx of children to a migrant shelter in their small town near the U.S.-Mexico border, they felt obliged to help. The superintendent reached out and agreed to send 19 bilingual teachers, mobile classrooms and hundreds of computers to make the learning environment resemble one of his schools. While a government contractor...

Hate Mondays? Maybe you should consider moving to Colorado. A school district in the Centennial State has cancelled school on Mondays in favor of a four-day school week. But Garfield-like attitudes is not why school district 27J, located outside Denver, made the decision. The district, which serves 18,000 students in Brighton, Commerce City, Henderson, Thornton and Aurora, believes that the...

The school committee in Hull, Massachusetts, has voted unanimously to put the district’s superintendent on paid administrative leave. Michael Devine, who had served in his current role since 2017 following eight years as principal at Hull High School, is the subject of allegations of personal misconduct brought forth by the Hull School Committee. Judith Kuehn has taken over as acting…

The Hull School Committee will hold an executive session on Wednesday to determine the status of superintendent Michael Devine, who has been relieved of his duties pending the outcome.

The community of Hull, Massachusetts, is looking for answers after the superintendent of schools abruptly took a leave of absence and was relieved of his duties.

A Rhode Island school superintendent has died after his 18-month battle with brain cancer. Chariho Regional Schools Supt. Barry Ricci was at school on Friday and died Sunday evening at the age of 62. School leaders said Ricci was a no-nonsense educator who fought for his district, the Providence Journal reported. Ricci’s district included the towns of Charleston, Richmond and…

A native of Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood, Nora Baston is the fourth woman to ever hold the post of Boston police superintendent. She was a standout athlete at the prestigious Boston Latin School and at UMass Lowell, but it has been her willingness to share the “not so great parts” of her rise to success that has made her the...

MBTA Transit Police are looking for a man wanted for what authorities are calling an “unprovoked attack,” violently assaulting a woman around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at Boston’s North Station.

A teacher allegedly sexually assaulted a student at Essex North Shore Agricultural & Technical High School.

A New Hampshire school district will test all its drinking water after one faucet was found to have high levels of a toxic chemical that has raised health concerns.

A threatening and vulgar note was found in a boys bathroom at King Philip Regional High School in Wrentham on Friday, according to the school’s superintendent. A high school staff member found the note crumpled up behind a toilet in the bathroom Friday evening, police said. The note didn’t mention specific violent acts or weapons, but it did have threatening...

A New Hampshire high school principal has resigned months after he took a voluntary leave of absence during an investigation into his handling of sexual misconduct allegations against a teacher. The Concord School Board unanimously voted to accept Tom Sica’s resignation from Concord High School at its meeting Monday night. Sica’s resignation came three days after former Superintendent Terri Forsten...

Teachers in Dedham are going into the weekend on strike.

The Roxbury man wanted as the suspected in connection to the shooting death of Donnell Davis was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia on bank robbery charges Wednesday, according to Boston police. The 24-year-old Ricardo Jamesy Washington will also be charged with murder and the unlawful possession of a firearm, police said. There is not yet a timetable for his return to...

Two high school students were suspended for painting a rock that’s often used for political expression.

A town in Vermont’s Rutland County is about to ban vaping, as well as other tobacco use, in certain busy community spaces. The peaceful park in the center of Fair Haven will soon be off-limits to folks using e-cigarettes, after a vote from the town’s select board. At its last meeting, the board passed an ordinance banning all tobacco use...

Amid public health concerns and nuisance complaints, a Vermont community will soon ban vaping in public spaces. Read More

The principal of Shelton Intermediate School is speaking out after a group from the school was kicked out of a Washington D.C. museum.

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

Two New Hampshire school officials have been placed on paid leave as the Concord School District board investigates how allegations against a teacher later charged with sexual assault were handled.