Safety & Wellness

In his first year as superintendent, Manny Caulk opened the new grant-funded office, created academic excellence strategies, redesigned high schools and launched a volunteer campaign.

As the school psychologist shortage grows, some districts have turned to telehealth to provide mental health care for students.

Amid rising parent and pediatrician concerns about the impact of devices on students' psychological and social development, some schools have started monitoring the amount of time students spend in front of screens.

A look at how, and why, districts implement "lice allowed" policies.

Last fall, a national problem arrived in Superintendent Richard Scaletta's corner of rural northwestern Pennsylvania. Principals in the General McLane School District began reporting unprecedented levels of misbehavior: students in frequent and severe distress, sometimes kicking, biting or throwing things.

The number of districts and states rushing to stock an emergency antidote that can revive students suffering heroin overdoses shows the severe degree to which the nation’s latest drug epidemic has disrupted schools. Students who in the past might have abused marijuana, painkillers and other prescription drugs have turned to heroin, which is now cheaper […]