Education

The county is celebrating the essential community members who get kids to and from school safely during Bus Driver Appreciation Week. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

More and more, parents are opting America’s children out of public school.

About 15% of teachers say a gun-related lockdown happened once during the 2022-23 school year, and 8% said it happened more than once, according to findings from the Pew Research Center.

“To walk into a school like Howard and have people that weren’t even born when this show was on and have them know all the details … it just makes my heart expand,” actress Cree Summer said.

Orlich did not have chlldren of her own, but she gave and gave and gave to the school community that was her family.

Ms. Orlich dedicated 67 years to the education system, and $1 million dollars of her own money to an education fund for students. News4’s Julie Carey reports.

A high school teacher and two students are suing Arkansas over the state’s ban on critical race theory in public schools. The lawsuit was filed Monday by the teacher and students from Little Rock Central High School.

Engineer majors earn double that of liberal arts majors five years after college.

The U.S. Education Department says it discovered a calculation error in hundreds of thousands of student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them, a blunder that follows a series of others and threatens further delays to this year’s college applications.

Fourth and Fifth graders at Viers Mill Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland, held a walkout Friday to express their concerns over the school losing its Title 1 status. That means the school will get less federal funding and will have to cut certain programs and positions next year.

Fourth and Fifth graders at Viers Mill Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland, held a walkout Friday to express their concerns over the school losing its Title 1 status. That means the school will get less federal funding and will have to cut certain programs and positions next year. News4’s Mauricio Casillas reports.

A school bus training academy in Chantilly, Virginia, trains veterans to become certified technicians who can install security devices on school buses. News4’s Adam Tuss reports.

High school students learned how courtrooms and trials operate during the DC Superior Court’s annual Youth Law Fair. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

But the News4 I-Team found that, despite widespread agreement among educational experts that tutoring is working, there are real fears those programs could sunset as the federal dollars that fund them are poised to go away later this year.

This month marks four years since the start of the pandemic, and millions of students are still behind in learning. Investigative Reporter Tracee Wilkins and the News4 I-Team found many schools turned to tutoring to help kids catch up, but as federal relief dollars go away, so could programs many say have helped the kids who need it the most. 

Parents are keenly aware of the distractions and the mental health issues associated with smartphones and social media, but teachers say they might not realize how much those struggles play out at school.

The tumultuous year of 2020 made many parents think about how to talk with their kids about sensitive topics. DC Public Schools educators realized they needed to make some changes to how they prepare students for the future. DCPS students will soon get a new take on social studies for the first time in 17 years. It’s part of a…

Washington Teachers’ Union members and DC Public Schools leaders, including Chancellor Dr. Lewis Ferebee, will decide new terms before the current contract expires in September. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

NASA’s Milton Davis volunteers with a nonprofit, Engineering Tomorrow, to bring STEM education to life for students. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

Inequality in education dates back from before the birth of our nation, from anti-literacy laws in the 1700s and 1800s to the Supreme Court’s 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision that said education could be “separate but equal.” Still, though, “there was no equality in the schools,” said Dr. Karsonya Whitehead, founding executive director of The Karson Institute for Race, Peace…