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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...

A man is suspected of shooting and killing his girlfriend’s teenage son and daughter at their Watertown home Tuesday night after an argument about him smoking cigarettes in the house escalated, according to police. They said the man had moved into the home just two weeks earlier.

The City of Poway is providing bottled water to residents after the city issued its first-ever boil water advisory on Saturday evening.

NBC 7’s Gaby Rodriguez has the latest on the City of Poway’s precautionary boil water advisory affecting thousands of residents and hundreds of food establishments.

A trustee for the Cajon Valley Unified School District claims the district’s superintendent and other board members retaliated against her for voicing concerns about frequent travel and alleged misspending of district funds. Board member Jilane Barto’s claims are detailed in a federal lawsuit filed against Cajon Valley Unified superintendent David Miyashiro and four school board members: James Miller, Jo Alegria,...

A military wife no longer has access to guns or custody of her children. The San Diego sheriff’s office says within just 15 minutes, she put her children, school officials and deputies in danger.

A North County high school student was taken into custody this week for allegedly threatening to commit a shooting, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said.

San Diego police are looking for a man who was reportedly touching himself inappropriately near schools on Tuesday in the Carmel Valley area.

A shortage of instructional aides in the Poway Unified School District is leaving special needs students without individual care and wearing on the instructors that are left doing the work.

The superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District wants to join a Los Angeles Unified School District lawsuit against the e-cigarette company Juul. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports Wednesday that Superintendent Cindy Marten says she will take the request to the school board. The Los Angeles district filed its lawsuit last month, blaming the e-cigarette manufacturer for creating an…

The Vista Unified School District is in apparent turmoil it tries to find a way to cut $19 million from the budget by December.

NBC 7’s Dave Summers details some of the costly decisions made at Thursday’s board meeting.

A local teacher is now on leave after a parent posted a video of her going on a racist rant in a school parking lot.

“The Star-Spangled Banner” isn’t an unusual feature of high school pregame festivities, but Roseanne Barr’s screeching 1990 rendition surprised spectators at one Delaware volleyball game.

“The Star-Spangled Banner” isn’t an unusual feature of high school pregame festivities, but Roseanne Barr’s screeching 1990s rendition surprised spectators at one Delaware volleyball game. The News Journal of Wilmington reports the Seaford School District apologized Wednesday for the shock served at Seaford High School’s Tuesday game against Milford High.

A new study finds that the carving out of new school districts in the South is increasingly dividing white students from their black and Latino peers, reinforcing segregation. The study examines 18 districts created since 2000 across Alabama, around Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and around Memphis, Tennessee. The study found that an increasing share of segregation between black and white students...

A Catholic school in Tennessee has removed the Harry Potter books from its library after the school’s priest decided they could cause a reader to conjure evil spirits. In an email obtained by The Tennessean , the Rev. Dan Reehil of Nashville’s St. Edward Catholic School said he consulted exorcists in the U.S. and Rome who recommended removing the books....

A Solana Beach middle school student says a teacher tried to coerce him to lie about an injury inside her classroom and when he refused, she ignored reports of other students bullying him.