Brooklyn elementary school offers digital music production class
NBC New York - A new after school program at a Brooklyn elementary school is taking a modern approach to teaching children about music.
100-year-old driver hits 11 people
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The screams of women and children didn't cause a 100-year-old driver to stop as he backed his large powder blue Cadillac onto a sidewalk across from an elementary school and hit 11 people, including nine children...
2nd grader wears blackface to play MLK
theGRIO REPORT - A second-grader at an elementary school in Colorado was told to remove makeup he wore to turn his face black for a performance in honor of Martin Luther King Jr...
Elementary class photo deemed 'racist' and 'offensive'
From Yahoo - An elementary school class picture is causing quite a stir after the photographer Photoshopped a cartoon smiley face over a boy's head...
School calls animal print African-American 'attire'
A North Carolina elementary school is under fire for suggesting that African-American 'attire' consists of wearing animal prints...
Slavery tag? Tasteless game at Georgia school
theGRIO REPORT - A suburban school district near Atlanta is reeling under accusations of racism, as students at Camp Creek Elementary School in Lilburn, Ga. allege that their teacher led them in a slavery-themed recess game...
One dropout every 26 seconds is ticking time bomb for blacks
OPINION - The high school drop out epidemic among African-Americans is not a ticking time bomb, it's a tsunami that's swamping the future of black America...
Compton public school wants to change up its identity
LOS ANGELES - Compton parents won their first victory in court Thursday as they battle the Compton Unified School District to establish a charter school at a low-performing elementary school...
Retired school teacher killed in Egyptian bus crash
VIDEO - Among those killed was Jean Byrd of San Diego, a retired San Diego Unified schoolteacher who taught for years at Silvergate Elementary...
Bullet necklace gets sixth grader suspended
VIDEO - Rob Smith wore the necklace to school for show-and-tell and now his parents fear that the situation has been blown out of proportion...
