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

A federal judge is weighing whether to let a high school student wear a Mexican and American flag sash at her graduation this weekend in Colorado.

The Dallas school district has apologized for not giving parents any warning or guidance before it sent elementary school students home with a Winnie the Pooh-themed book about what to do in the event of a school shooting.

Iowa teachers are now banned from raising gender identity or sexual orientation issues with children through the sixth grade.

As he vies for the Republican presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is touting a series of measures he has pushed that have led to an upswing in banned or restricted books — not just in Florida schools but in an increasing number of other conservative states.

A woman who pleaded guilty to attempted murder in connection with a 2022 incident at Appomattox County High School has learned her fate.

Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks told graduates of Harvard University to be superheroes in their defense of truth and American ideals, and to resist those who twist the truth.

The bell schedule will be proposed to the school board on June 13.

The vessel UHF Felicity pulled into the port of New Bedford shortly before 5:00 Wednesday afternoon carrying massive parts for offshore wind turbines.

A transgender Mississippi girl who skipped graduation because school officials told her to follow the boys dress code says she celebrated the end of high school with family members who embrace her full identity.

A ribbon cutting for a new resource for students at Salem High School.

Scientists and students placed tracking bands on four boisterous peregrine falcon chicks who live on top of Michigan State University’s football stadium.

The relatives of 19 students and two teachers gunned down at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, are still waiting for answers a year later.

With concerning numbers of school shootings and threats not only in our region but around the U.S., 10 News is digging into the data of the most recent school threat statistics.

A divided federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of a new admissions policy at an elite Virginia high school that critics say discriminates against Asian Americans.

A school shooter serving a life sentence without parole for killing a first grader on a South Carolina playground when he was 14 is asking a judge to lessen his sentence so he can eventually get out of prison.

A new partnership with Roanoke Catholic will allow students to explore a career in aviation before even graduating high school.

The fraud case against the founder of a student loan assistance startup company that J.

Spain is set to unveil what is touted as one of Europe’s cultural highlights of the year with the opening in Madrid of The Royal Collections Gallery next month.

The firing of two employees at a religious school in western New York is fanning the culture wars roiling parts of the United States.

Unfounded claims about Indiana University’s sex research institute, its founder and child sex abuse have been so persistent over the years that when the Legislature prohibited the institute from using state dollars, one lawmaker hailed the move as “long overdue.”.

Covington High, Alleghany High will merge next year to create Alleghany High School, home of the Alleghany Cougars

For Native American students, tribal regalia is often passed down through generations and worn at graduations to signify connection with the community.

Nearly two-thirds of for-profit cosmetology certificate programs would face a federal crackdown under new federal rules proposed by the Biden administration.

The COVID-19 pandemic upended learning across the United States.

College programs that leave graduates underpaid or buried in loans would be cut off from federal money under a proposal issued by the Biden administration on Wednesday.

Florida is banning gender affirming care for minors among a series of anti-LGBTQ+ bills signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Publisher Penguin Random House and PEN America have sued a Florida school district over its removal of books about race and LGBTQ+ identities.

A truck driver has been charged after seven children were hospitalized with serious injuries when he rear-ended a school bus on the outskirts of Melbourne in southeastern Australia.

Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana have seen a promising turnaround in their student reading scores after passing a series of similar literacy reforms.

Governor Glenn Youngkin said it was a full circle moment getting to address the VMI graduates after several of the cadets took part in his inauguration parade.

Dartmouth College says it has found the partial skeletal remains of 15 Native Americans housed in its anthropology department.

A university professor broke a record for the longest time living underwater without depressurization this weekend at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers.

President Joe Biden has told graduates of Howard University that American history hasn't always been a “fairy tale” and that “racism has torn us apart.”.

Some of America's largest cities that challenged their 2020 census numbers are hearing back from the U.S. Census Bureau.

High school students are having less sexual intercourse.

Thousands of teaching licenses are delayed amid a record-high processing backlog.

This year, WSLS introduced a scholarship for 2 college-bound high school seniors.10 Sports John Appicello got to meet both of the recipients - James River senior, Michael Jorgensen, and Glenvar senior, Kennerly Nichols.

South Carolina Republicans are one step closer to restricting how race gets taught in K-12 classrooms.

“The Queen’s Gambit” is playing out in real life in Maine, where a custodian is coaching his schools’ chess teams to national acclaim.

The Rockbridge County community is healing after Devin Nicely – a friend, student, volunteer firefighter, athlete, and son – was tragically killed in a car crash.

There’s a new center dedicated to teaching students coping skills during their suspension.

Radford school leaders are wanting to make sure your child gets a proper education and they want to do that by ensuring teachers have better planning times.

This year, WSLS introduced a scholarship for 2 college-bound high school seniors.10 Sports John Appicello got to meet one of the recipients - James River senior, Michael Jorgensen.

All buildings have been secured after Liberty High School was placed on an active lockdown around 2 p.m., according to school officials.

Elementary school students in the Alleghany Highlands division now know where they’ll be going to school for the upcoming school year.

Clifton Middle School and Mountainview Elementary School will be closed Wednesday out of an abundance of caution.

A GOP candidate has roiled the primary race for Kentucky governor with a comment that if she's elected, “we will not have transgenders in our school system,” angering LGBTQ advocates in a state that has enacted laws limiting the rights of transgender youth.

The Liberty University Office of Security & Public Safety has announced a new safety app for the campus community.

As schools across the country struggle to find teachers to hire, more governors are pushing for pay increases and bonuses for the beleaguered profession.

The idea of later school start times, pushed by many over the years as a way to help adolescents get more sleep, is getting a new look as a way to address the mental health crisis affecting teens across the U.S. Nationally, at least nine states are considering legislation related to school start times, up from four the previous year, according to the National Conference on State Legislatures.

Oprah Winfrey has given the commencement address at her alma mater, Tennessee State University.

The Salem Roanoke County Chamber of Commerce honored more than 40 students who are joining the apprenticeship program, which offers local high school students the chance to work in their chosen field before even graduating from high school.

The current superintendent of Pulaski County Public Schools has accepted a new role elsewhere, school division leaders said.

Republican-controlled states across the U.S. are adding restrictions on how schools should handle transgender students.

Literary icon Nikki Giovanni is set to receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Roanoke College.

10 News investigates the new age system of punishment and how it’s working.

Florida Republicans have approved bills to ban diversity programs in colleges and prevent students and teachers from being required to use pronouns that don’t correspond to someone’s sex, building on top priorities of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Radford students feared the possibility of an active shooter Monday, but later discovered it was a prank call.

A Virginia Tech professor weighs in on looming writers' strike and its impact on people in Southwest Virginia.

Ahead of summer, local pantries are in desperate need of donations in order to feed children this summer.

King Charles III hasn’t even been crowned yet but his name is already etched on the walls of Hill House School in London.

America's high school graduates are often encouraged to start at a community college before getting a bachelor's degree, but the money-saving move rarely works as planned.

Students and administrators in one New York school district are wrestling with how to respond to the state’s newly approved ban on the use of Native American-themed logos and names.

Oklahoma's newly elected Republican head of public schools campaigned for the job last fall on a platform of banning certain books and fighting “woke ideology” in public schools.

A former Florida school principal who was forced to resign after students were shown an image of Michelangelo’s iconic statue of a nude David has viewed the masterpiece in person.

Bestselling author Angie Thomas has surprised a senior at a Mississippi high school with a full-ride scholarship for creative writing to the private university where Thomas earned her bachelor’s degree.

Kansas clinics will be required to tell patients that medication abortions can be stopped using a drug regimen that the providers consider ineffective and potentially dangerous.

He is a senior at 16.

Florida officials are threatening to revoke the teaching license of a school superintendent after he criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Two students were shot in the parking lot of George Wythe High School on Thursday, NBC 12 reported.

President Joe Biden’s student debt agenda would be all but obliterated by the U.S. debt legislation passed by House Republicans, dooming his mass cancellations, scrapping a more generous loan repayment option and barring future regulation around student debt.

Republican legislators in Kansas have enacted possibly the most sweeping transgender bathroom law in the U.S. The GOP-controlled Legislature on Thursday overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of the measure.

Montgomery County schools are receiving less than half of what they asked for from the county.

At Monday night’s Montgomery County Board of Supervisors meeting, a citizen raised concerns about something Montgomery County Public Schools’ Superintendent Dr. Bernard F. Bragen, Jr. had apologized for.

The National Endowment for the Humanities is supporting an effort to record oral histories and digitize records on Indigenous boarding schools.

The family of a man who was fatally struck by a vehicle driven by former Syracuse University basketball coach Jim Boeheim in 2019 has agreed to settle a lawsuit against Boeheim and the university.

Amid bans on teaching controversial topics related to race, Black families have embraced schools that affirm their African American heritage.

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will be temporarily joining Harvard University later this year.

The College Board says changes will be made to its new AP African American studies course, after critics said the agency bowed to political pressure and removed several topics from the framework, including Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer life.

Roanoke City Public Schools Superintendent, Verletta White, has been named Virginia’s Superintendent of the Year.

Roanoke College's Board of Trustees approved a proposal to begin offering football, cheerleading and a marching band pending $1.2 million in funding.

A new report says books with LGBTQ+ themes remain the most complained about at public schools and libraries around the country.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has replaced her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book that the Republican governor denounced as teaching “woke concepts” because of language about inclusion for all families and battling racism.

Virginia Tech Board of Visitors unanimously voted to raise tuition by 4.9% for the 2023-2024 school year.

WSLS is excited to announce our 2023 scholarship recipients.

Thomas is in third grade, but he reads as if he’s a few years younger.

Students were able to talk to more than 80 businesses within the Roanoke Valley.

The Roanoke County School Board voted to unanimously approve multi-million dollar funding for construction projects, school leaders announced on Thursday night.

The Virginia Board of Education approved a revised History and Social Science Standards of Learning which will be implemented in 2025.

Many American third graders aren't reading well — and that poses an urgent problem.

For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate backers on each side of the so-called reading wars.

Two former New Mexico State basketball players filed a lawsuit alleging they were sexually assaulted by teammates and that the coaching staff and other administrators did nothing when they reported the assaults.

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can add more wins to his agenda targeting the LGBTQ+ community.

As school shootings continue across the U.S., parents and educators are facing increasing scrutiny.

Lawmakers in the Texas Capitol have set aside a slate of proposed new gun restrictions without a vote after hours of emotional appeals from Uvalde families whose children were killed last year at Robb Elementary School.

Virginia Tech students are asking for more transparency 17 months after President Tim Sand's created a work group to address sexual violence on campus.

The U.S. Department of Energy hopes to use nearly $15 million in federal grants to boost clean energy development at tribal colleges and universities around the country.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he wants to reverse an anti-math mindset and require the subject for students until they are 18.

While almost every sector of higher education has fewer students registering for classes, many trade programs are booming.