Education

Tajon Heard, was 13 when he was hit by a car and learned how to walk again.

A young man was able to walk across the graduation stage at Wise High School. A walk that seemed unfathomable 5 years ago, when he was near death after a crash in Upper Marlboro.

The Bible has been banned at elementary and middle schools in one Utah school district after a committee decided it wasn’t age appropriate “due to vulgarity or violence.”

14-year-old Dev Shah won the 95th Scripps National Spelling Bee with the final word of Psammophile

Twin brothers who left Ukraine four days before the war started are graduating from a high school in Maryland and heading to college. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

Competitors in the Scripps National Spelling Bee are trying to adjust their preparation so they don’t get tripped up by onstage, multiple-choice vocabulary questions.

Before heading to high school in the fall, some Virginia eighth graders are learning different ways to give back to their school and community. News4’s Community Reporter Molette Green is at South County Middle School as the students approach their Day of Service deadline.

Several D.C.-area students are competing to be the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion. The competition takes place at National Harbor, Maryland.

The word list for the Scripps National Spelling Bee is crafted by a panel of 21 people, including five former Scripps champions.

Students in D.C. will be armed with knowledge and ready to deal with periods no matter when they arrive, thanks to new Menstrual Health Education Standards announced Thursday by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education.

D.C. Council will take a final vote on a massive budget that Council says – among many other things – will force Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Public Schools to follow a law passed last year on how much money D.C. schools must receive.

D.C. Council will take a final vote on a massive budget that Council says – among many other things – will force Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Public Schools to follow a law passed last year on how much money D.C. schools must receive. Investigative Reporter Ted Oberg breaks down what it means for kids.

Amanda Gorman spoke out Tuesday after access to the poem she recited at President Joe Biden’s inauguration was restricted at a school in Miami-Dade.

A federal appeals court ruled in favor of the Fairfax County School Board, upholding the constitutionality of a new admissions process at Thomas Jefferson High School. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder explains the new policy is meant to increase diversity at the school, but parents sued the school board and claimed the changes were discriminatory to Asian Americans.

The program at UMD provides educational disabilities for people with intellectual disabilities. News4’s Dominique Moody reports on the first graduating class.

“When I was a fourth grade teacher, I wasn’t worried about what the secretary of education was doing; I was focused on my children. I understand that, so my job [today] is not to micromanage from D.C.; my job is to make sure they have the resources [and] support, and that we’re giving our schools the tools that they need...

Embracing change and being open to new experiences can make the first year after college one of the happiest, most exciting times of your life. 

Under President Joe Biden, the U.S. Department of Education has in recent years canceled more than $66 billion in education debt.

High school teacher James Cruz’s life-lasting lessons go beyond history. Telemundo 44’s Lilian Mass has his story.

Virginia education officials took emergency action Thursday to head off a crisis that could have impacted students and teachers across the commonwealth.