In Maryland, two 6-year-olds are suspended for using their fingers as imaginary guns. The parents of a Baltimore 7-year-old boy say he was suspended for nibbling his pastry into the shape of a gun. In South Carolina, a kindergartner is expelled for b ...

[caption id="attachment_20718" align="alignright" width="300"] (AP Photo/Mike Groll)[/caption]NEW YORK - The $46.6 billion pension fund for New York City schoolteachers has sold its stock in companies that make guns and ammunition, city officials ann ...

Whether a child gets a good preschool education should not depend on a parent's paycheck, U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday. Obama traveled to Decatur, Ga., to push the proposal in Tuesday's State of the Union address to make high-quality pre ...

New research suggests that teacher absenteeism is becoming problematic in U.S. public schools, as about one in three teachers miss more than 10 days of school each year. The nation's improving economic picture may also worsen absenteeism as teachers' ...

Jittery officials put a Bronx elementary school into lockdown yesterday after an aide overheard a student say "something about a gun" - which turned out to be only a toy Nerf gizmo he had at home. The school worker heard the 12-year-old boy talking t ...

CINCINNATI (AP) - A former teacher is suing the U.S. school district where she used to work, saying administrators discriminated against her because she has a rare phobia: a fear of young children. Maria Waltherr-Willard, 61, had been teaching Spanis ...

EVERETT, Mass. (AP) - The principal of a Massachusetts high school was suspended Tuesday for two days without pay for appearing in a spoof of "The Terminator" movies that was shown to students, which some people thought was inappropriate. Everett Hig ...

CONCORD, Calif. - While many parents struggle to get their kids out from under the covers, dressed and off to school, Erinn Watson's daughters are always on time for class. Even when they wake up late. Catey and Aiden Watson, of Concord, Calif., are ...

MONROE, Conn. - On the way from Newtown to Monroe Wednesday morning, there were green and white signs welcoming Sandy Hook Elementary School students, parents and staff. At the edge of the once-vacant Chalk Hill School driveway, there was a sign and ...

[caption id="attachment_20048" align="alignright" width="300"] FILE - (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)[/caption]Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - The head of the National Rifle Association on Friday said armed police in every U.S. school could prevent the next ...