Schools

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.

It was an unsettling start of the week for students in Montclair, after a weekend social media threat shut down their entire school district. Police said the target of the threat was a staff member at Northeast Elementary School, and the person accused of being behind it was a new teacher on administrative leave. NBC New York’s Jen Maxfield...

All schools in New Jersey’s Montclair School District are closed Monday because of a social media threat directed at a staff member, according to Montclair police.

All schools in New Jersey’s Montclair School District were closed Monday because of a social media threat directed at a specific staff member, according to Montclair police. Law enforcement officials believe the threat came from a staff member who is currently on administrative leave, police said. Authorities say administrators were made aware of a potential threat late Sunday made...

Storm Team 4 Meteorologist, Matt Brickman, made a school visit to Midwood Catholic Academy in Brooklyn, NY. The 3rd, 4th and 5th graders learned about snowflake shapes, different types of clouds and more.

Police responded to a shooting on Monday at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin.