Florence School District 3 is now using technology to stop bullying.

When Betty Maynard, her husband, her disabled brother, her 85-year old mother, and the two family dogs were forced to the second floor of their suburban Houston home and emergency rescue crews weren't responding to requests for help, Maynard, a Pre-K teacher at Duryea Elementary in the Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District, did the only thing she could think of. She reached out to her principal.

The correlation between academic achievement and good attendance is not new information to state education officials, but a recent study by national group Attendance Works and the Everyone Graduates Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education shows a relationship between poor attendance and students from families demonstrating financial need.

Schools and primary care doctors are the first line of defense in flagging kids and teens who need mental health counseling and connecting them with resources in the community, but despite a number of measures in place to provide safety nets for these adolescents, they aren’t catching everyone.

A decline in off-campus incidents involving University of Massachusetts students is the result of continued cooperation between the town and UMass, including its police departments, according to university officials.

For nearly a decade, a resettlement program has been running summer school for refugee kids near Seattle to help them get ready to learn.

A northwestern Wisconsin school district will launch a program that aims to teach kids how to persevere through life's challenges and look for positive outcomes.

Since 2015, Sheriff Tim Cameron and Superintendent Scott Smith have made collaboration on safety issues a top priority.