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Fourth and eighth grade students in MIami-Dade County Public Schools ranked high nationally in reading and writing for the National Assessment of Education Progress exams. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports.

Fourth-graders in Miami-Dade County Public Schools are on a roll. They pretty much aced a test known as “the nation’s report card.”

“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....

Some schools and universities in South Florida have started to announce closures and cancellations ahead of Hurricane Dorian.

350,000 students are set to go back to Miami-Dade public schools tomorrow. Some of them will be returning to renovated schools, others new principals and all to increased security measures.

An Alabama high school student who wore a tuxedo for her senior portrait instead of the traditional black drape for girls received her yearbook only to discover that her photo was missing, NBC News reports. Holley Gerelds, who graduated this year from Springville High School, told NBC affiliate WVTM in Birmingham that she wanted to be herself in her senior...

The wife of an Arkansas jail administrator was arrested and charged with assault several days after police say she pulled a gun on four black teenagers who were going door to door to raise money for their high school football team. Police in the eastern Arkansas city of Wynne, about 100 miles northeast of Little Rock, said the incident happened...

Members of the commission investigating last year’s high school shooting in Parkland ripped into the district’s superintendent, saying he’s not doing enough to assure campus security, particularly at charter schools.

The Broward Sheriff’s Office unveiled a center on Tuesday that will allow live monitoring and analysis of what’s going on in school hallways and campuses in Broward County.

The president of a Pennsylvania school board whose district had warned parents behind on school lunch bills that their children could end up in foster care has apologized to parents and said he will accept a company CEO’s offer to cover the unpaid bills after initially rejecting it.

A new report is shedding light on Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie’s expenses and is questioning whether taxpayers are wasting money on “unecessary travel, lobbying activities, perks” and his “super-sized” salary.

It’s a tiny solution to a huge problem. A little bug from Brazil, called a thrip, may be the best tool Florida scientists have ever had in their decades-old fight against the invasive Brazilian peppertree.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools have the highest amount of ‘A’ rated schools in the district.