students

It's been a topic of discussion for years - should high schoolers have a later start time? There's positives and negatives to both sides of the discussion but a school district in Michigan has now changed the game leaving it up to the student...

Each year for graduation, students decorate their caps, but this year Ionia High School students are not allowed to.  Principal Ben Gurk announced to the students about the new rule.  He says that if students show up to graduation with decorated caps, their caps will be taken away from them...

Applying to college is a lot of work. An important part of the process is searching for financial aid, but finding out what you qualify for can be both time consuming and confusing. One group is offering free help in Grand Rapids for anyone seeking financial aid for college.

Starting this fall, some high school students will be able to take college courses. The Grand Rapids Public School and Grand Rapids Community College teamed up to create an 'Early Middle College' program. This will allow students to take college classes that will earn them credit towards getting their Associates Degree...

Starting in the new school year, Michigan students will be required to learn CPR. The legislation, which was just passed in December, goes into effect beginning in the 2017-18 school year. The law states that health classes will have to teach CPR and how to use a defibrillator (AED - automated external defibrillators)...

CPR training could soon become a part of curriculum for Michigan students grades 7 through 12, 9 & 10 News reports.

A teacher at  Kenowa Hills Middle School has turned to online fundraising to purchase books for his students. Fox 17 reports that Ray Koopmans, a Spanish teacher, has raised $7,000 with his GoFundMe campaign.

For someone who has been partying all night during spring break, 11 a.m. seems so early. However, one hotel in Panama City Beach, Fla., thought that was the perfect time for party animals to wake up. The way the hotel decided to awaken everyone was to blast the "The Circle of Life," the theme song from the Disney movie The Lion King.

Desiree Andrews is an eighth-grader from Kenosha, Wis., with Down syndrome. She hasn't let that stop her from joining Lincoln Middle School's cheerleading squad.

Arrowhead Union High School in Hartland, Wis., now probably has the nicest high school locker room in the country. And it'll probably disgust you.

A sixth-grade teacher in Dallas got into some trouble after he went on a profanity-filled rant in one of his classes.

If someone's crapping in the gym, you gotta find out who did it." -- Producer Joe Well, that's what happened at an elementary school in Gustine, Texas, a town about 90 miles southwest of Fort Worth.