The family's attorney stresses that had the school provided medical care after the altercation, her client wouldn't have needed an amputation.

A Black Maryland middle school student recorded a video of her classmates chanting a racist slur on their school bus. The video went viral, and adds more evidence of growing student incivility.

An eighth-grader was reduced to tears and utter embarrassment last week when she was sent to the principal’s office for simply wearing her natural hair.…

David Pfaff, a science teacher at Bailey Middle School, was seen snatching a chair from underneath one of his students.

A video clip of a California middle school vice principal telling a group of children he didn’t like the black students at the school is sparking…

DC public schools is scheduled to close 20 schools that are “underperforming or under enrolled” next year, according to ABC7. Below is a list of schools to be shut down: Francis-Stevens Education Campus Garrison Elementary SChool MacFarland Middle School Sharpe Health School Mamie D. Lee School C.H.O.I.C.E. Academy Middle/High School Marshall Elementary School Spingarn High […]

Serious gang-related crime in Northern Virginia has dropped since 2004, but officials are concerned that middle schools are emerging as epicenters of gang activity and recruitment, according to a report from the Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force. In 2007, according to the report, middle schools accounted for about 35 percent of gang offenses in […]

(Rockville, MD) — Montgomery County middle schoolers performed poorly on state standardized tests this year. Of the county’s 38 middle schools, 12 failed to meet “No Child Left Behind” targets. That’s compared to five schools that missed their marks last year. Special education students and low-income students faired the worst. School leaders say a new […]