Schools

Hundreds of school districts around the U.S. may have to abandon plans to acquire electric buses after the EPA froze the latest round of money that was part of President Biden’s infrastructure law. The electric buses would replace diesel-burning buses that are particularly unhealthy for the children who ride them. The buses would also would save districts on fuel costs....

Alarming findings from a new audit by the NYC comptroller’s office showed that the city’s Department of Education has failed to properly inspect an overwhelming majority schools for asbestos. The checks are required under federal law, but the audit showed the city falling far short of federal standards. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

Alarming findings from the NYC comptroller’s office audit found an overwhelming majority of city schools have not been properly inspected for asbestos, falling far short of federal standards.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/new-york-city/nyc-school-asbestos-inspections-badly-lacking-custodians-carcinogen/6219332/

NBC 4 New York’s Chief Meteorologist, Janice Huff, met with over 100 second graders at Woodland Elementary School to teach a Weather Kids lesson. The students learned about the upcoming hurricane season and different types of clouds.

Storm Team 4 Meteorologist, Matt Brickman, and Telemundo 47’s Chief Meteorologist, Andrea Romero, brought weather Kids to Valley Cottage Elementary School in Rockland County. The third graders learned about storms, types of clouds and what it’s it is like to be a television meteorologist.

A small high school in North Carolina was surprised by its band director with the highest ranking its band has won at a statewide musical competition.

TikTok has recently been flooded with videos of people claiming that Krispy Kreme gives out free doughnuts for good grades.

Weather Kids and Niños Del Tiempo stopped by Public School 16 in Paterson, NJ for a bilingual weather session. NBC 4 New York Meteorologist, Raphael Miranda, and Telemundo 47 Chief Meteorologist, Andrea Romero, met with fifth and sixth graders to talk about upcoming spring and summer weather.

An Idaho teacher is in a standoff with her own school district after officials ordered her to remove classroom signs, including one that reads, “Everyone is welcome here.”  Sarah Inama, a sixth-grade history teacher at Lewis and Clark Middle School in Meridian, Idaho, says she won’t comply with the order, arguing that the message is a fundamental part to ensuring...

Storm Team 4 Meteorologist, Raphael Miranda, visited St. Demetrios Elementary School in Astoria, Queens. The second and third graders learned all about thunder, lightning, high and low pressure.

Love them or hate them, there is a new debate over Crocs as a growing number of schools are trying to ban the footwear fashion.

Schools across the United States are closing due to spikes in influenza and other seasonal illnesses. As the 2024–2025 flu season rages on with no peak yet in sight, some school systems are overwhelmed with sick students and staff.

A study conducted by researchers at Stony Brook University found teenagers spend an average of 90 minutes a day on their phones during school.

NBC 4 New York Meteorologist, Raphael Miranda, met with third graders at South Mountain Elementary School in Maplewood, NJ. The students learned about clouds and high and low pressure systems.

In the 1995 movie “Clueless,” Alicia Silverstone’s character Cher orchestrates a romantic connection between her two teachers, Mr. Hall and Miss Geist. A 13-year-old student from Texas, like Cher, told a few white lies to get the ball rolling for her two teachers to make a connection.

An attempt to authorize the Catholic school was challenged as a violation of the First Amendment, which limits government involvement in religion.

Next week marks the Lunar New Year and parents are already flocking to Google with a simple question: Are NYC schools open? They will be closed on Wednesday, Jan. 29 in observance of the holiday and reopen on Thursday, Jan. 30. Lunar New Year celebrates the beginning of spring and the new year on the lunisolar calendar. It is a major…

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget plan includes a ban on cellphones in schools, and she promised the spending plan will put more money in New Yorkers’ pockets through inflation refund checks, an expanded child tax credit and middle class tax cuts. What’s missing? Funding for the MTA if President Trump follows through on his campaign promise to kill congestion pricing. And...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday as part of her budget address that she plans to introduce legislation to apply a bell-to-bell restriction on smartphone use in schools statewide. Many of the city’s more than 1,500 public schools already restrict cellphone use, but Hochul says a listening tour through New York’s educational system highlighted, to her, the need for additional...

Now Gov. Phil Murphy is calling for a statewide ban for cellphones in schools that would ban all K-12 Garden State schools.