Adolescents spend an average of 70 minutes of their school days on their phones, new research finds. But parents can help suggest ways kids not use phones at school.

Education Week is tracking K-12 school shootings in 2026 with injuries or deaths. See the number of incidents and where they occurred.

An investigation is underway after an assault involving a knife at a Franklin County middle school, leaving one student injured and another in custody.

The unnamed school will be built on the former Rule High School site to serve the Beaumont, Lonsdale and Mechanicsville communities.

A mother holds her children at a memorial outside Annunciation Catholic Church following the Aug. 27 shooting at the Minneapolis Catholic school. The shooting, in which two children died and 21 people were injured, was the largest school shooting of 2025, a year during which there were fewer school shootings than in any year since 2020.

Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Taylor says the district is still working to address past mistakes and financial management issues.

School administrators and community members gathered Sunday to chalk positive messages onto the school sidewalk to counter the racist messages graffitied at Roxborough High.

DEAR ERIC: Why should I go to my 50th high school reunion? I received a phone call from a former classmate who wouldn’t give me the time of day when we were in school together. “You need to go!” No, thank you. The cost is outrageous. Plus, most of the people I would like to see are either not going or are deceased.