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Orchard Park, NY (WBEN) An investigation is in progress after a report of what's being described as inappropriate social ...
New York residents are voting on their school districts' proposed budgets for next year.Authorities say the average propo...
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is proposing new legislation to ease the burden for students who have borrowed t...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Holy Angels Academy says it will move forward with plans to close the school at the end of next month. The...
(WBEN) Hamburg Central Schools tonight could be the latest of several area districts rebelling against state policy on standa...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) A number of parents in school districs as well as board members are drafting and voting on resolutions bla...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Last week, we learned Holy Angels Academy would close its doors at the end of the school year. Friday, we ...
(WBEN) Payscale.com hascompared the costs of over 1,500 schools nationwide, with the expected earnings a graduate could make ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) As a family grows and seeks a home, one factor seems to creep in among price, vicinity to work and play, a...
The BAND Against Bullying Program was is a collaboration between M&T Bank, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Chil...
(WBEN) As several districts face a growing number of parents who are keeping their children out of the standardized achieveme...
The situation is resolved at Orchard Park Middle School. Stll, Orchard Park Police will maintain a presence at the school for...
(WBEN) Extra police were at the Orchard Park Middle School today, as a precaution after some sort of threat. The district rep...
BUFFALO, NY-(WBEN)The State University of New York on Friday announced that approximately 20,000 notices will be sent to curr...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Pamela Brown has named Dr. Mary Guinn Interim Deputy Superintend...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) As high school juniors explore the different colleges to choose from as they prepare to take the next step...
Amherst, NY (WBEN) Today at UB, high school juniors will have the chance to talk with dozens of colleges as part of a college...
Albany, NY (AP/WBEN) The tentative deal for a New York state budget will include expansion of pre-kindergarten in low-income ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) On Friday local developer, Carl Paladino released an open memo to the Buffalo School Board. In the memo, P...
The latest craze to sweep the Internet is bringing college students the wrong kind of attention - from the Federal Aviation A...
(WBEN/AP) New York's largest teachers union says it's suing to overturn the state's property tax cap.New York Sta...
West Seneca (WBEN) -- A student at West Seneca East is serving a suspension following a tweet in which he used an expletive a...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) As the snow continues to fly from a storm system that's causing worse problems east, a number of schoo...
ATLANTA (AP) - Authorities say a 14-year-old has been wounded in a shooting at an Atlanta middle school and a suspect has bee...
"I want to see my kids! Bang! Bang!" the man shouted as he stormed into the front office of a South Carolina elemen...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- A Buffalo man has been studying the idea of school consolidation for quite some time.Kevin Gaughan has been...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Bishop RichardMalone on Saturdayappointed a new superintendent of Catholic schools for the Diocese of Buffa...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) A former Alden High School teacher has pleaded guilty to sexting a student.46 year old Gerald Wild of Amhe...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN/release) -- Three Catholic schools in South Buffalo will be merged into one campus in time for the next sch...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) With the state education department approving Buffalo's teacher evaluation plan, one district is left ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The State Education Departmenthas approved a teacher evaluation plan for the Buffalo Public Schools, ensur...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Tuesday night, Buffalo Public Schools and the Buffalo Teachers Federation reached a deal on teacher evalua...
Cheektowaga, NY (WBEN) A Cheektowaga Central teacher is suing the district over being ordered to remove religious sayings and...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The Buffalo School District and the Buffalo Teachers Federationhave reached an agreement on the teacher-tra...
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Jessica Fiveash sees nothing wrong with arming teachers. She's one herself, and learn...
ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN/AP) - As Governor Andrew Cuomo invites New Yorkers to observe a moment of silence at 9:30 a.m. Friday for ...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The Buffalo Schools Crisis Team was on call the entire weekend -- and is prepared to help students or facul...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) This is the first day back at school locally after the shootings at a Connecticut elementary school claime...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) For young children, school is where they spend their days learning, not worrying about being shot. Locally...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent Pamela Brown has issued a statement on the shooting in Newtown, Conn...
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - Family members are relaying what children told them about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School ...
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut State Police say the shooterat a Connecticut elementary school Friday is dead. 26 people a...
East Aurora, NY (WBEN) The teacher arrested in Buffalo on drug charges is now on leave according to East Aurora's schools...
An East Aurora high school teacher and coach has been arrested by Buffalo police, charged after a traffic stop with possessio...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Five states announced Monday that they will add at least 300 hours of learning time to the calendar in som...
Rochester, N.Y. (AP) - About 4,000 students in Rochester will be spending a lot more time in the classroom beginning with the...
Clarence, NY (WBEN) There is a police presence at Clarence High School today. This after a social media threat of a student b...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The nonprofit Buffalo Promise Neighborhood says construction is underway at the site of an upcoming early c...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP/WBEN) - A former teacher has admitted to stealing more than $17,000 from her school's Parent Teache...
Affirmative action is rarely discussed on the campaign trail, but it nevertheless is a matter of heated debate in Washington ...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- She didn't get the permanent job as Buffalo school superintendent, but Amber Dixon has moved on to a ne...
(WBEN) Health officials are urging Americans to start thinking about their flu vaccine for the upcoming 2012-2013 influenza s...
Brockport (WBEN) -- The Monroe County Sheriff's Department has made an arrest following the discovery of a female student...
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CHICAGO (AP) -- The city's teachers agreed Tuesday to return to the classroom after more than a week on the picket lines,...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The Buffalo Teachers Federation received another judgement in its favor Tuesday when a judge upheld an arb...
Fargo, ND (AP) North Dakota State University officials arelifting the order evacuating the campus after receiving a bomb thre...
Amherst (WBEN) -- An Amherst convenience store remains in operation, but its long-time owner has moved on from the business.K...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Last week, an arbitrator ruled the Buffalo Public Schools' transfer of 54 teachers in three underperfo...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) State Education Commissioner John King visited area schools Wednesday as the school year gets underway.Kin...
SHARE YOUR SHOTS: E-mail your pictures of kids on that first day of school to newsroom@wben.com, and we'll putthemin our ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) An arbitrator has ruled the Buffalo Public Schools violated the collective bargaining agreement with the B...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Kaleida Health's board of directors have made a decision on what will take over the Millard Fillmore G...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Schools are scheduled to open in Western New York next week, but some districts nationwide have already sta...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- As of Friday morning, August 24, a local backpack distribution project has benefited more than 6,500 studen...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) On neighborhoods surrounding the UB South Campus Wednesday afternoon, students moving inand longtime neigh...
GREECE, N.Y. (AP) - The former upstate New York school bus monitor whose videotaped bullying by students spurred more than &#...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- A new report from theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) is describing a downwar...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The state Education Department is changing its policy on sunscreen in schools. Instead of a doctor's n...
Kenmore, NY (WBEN) --The Ken-Ton School board has voted to close Thomas Jefferson Elementary at the conclusion of the 2013-14...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - Police say at least one law enforcement officer,one civilian, and the gunmanhave been killed in...
A procession of priests, cardinals, archbishops and bishops will lead off the official installation of the new Roman Catholic...
Greece, NY (AP)A New York school bus monitor who was shown in a video being relentlessly bullied by a group of boys says she&...
Washington, D.C. (WBEN) -- Citing concern aboutcollege education costs, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says she's suppor...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) -- A Thursday evening fire in South Buffalo heavily damaged the boyhood home of late journalist Tim Russer...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The new superintendent of the Buffalo Public Schools is already looking ahead to the opening of school in S...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) We should know later today the result of a lawsuit developer and school board critic Carl Paladino filed a...
Albany, NY (WBEN) Governor Cuomo has signed a law aimed at protecting kids from cyberbullying, as well as other forms of bull...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The next superintendent of the Buffalo Schools discussed her initial priorities during a news conference Mo...
Greece, NY (WBEN) The Greece Central School District has announced discipline for the four students involved in the videotape...
An investigation is underway after a group of middle school students froma Rochester suburb taunted a school bus attendant Mo...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he may not reach agreement with lawmakers on his bill to keep teacher evaluations ...
For the twelfth year in a row, the Williamsville Central School district has been named top district in Western New York, acc...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) By a 7-2 vote, Dr. Pamela Brown has been voted the new superintendent of Buffalo Public Schools.The Buffal...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) For the 11th straight year, Nardin Academy is the top ranked high school in Business First's annual ra...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The Buffalo Teachers Federation has approved a teacher evaluation plan that restores $5.6 million in f...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Business First's rankings of area school continue with the middle schools. There's no change at th...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN/AP) State education numbers are in, and Buffalo's high school graduation rate is moving higher.The Depa...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The Buffalo School Board continues focusing on selecting the next superintendent.The board is considering t...
Irving, NY (WBEN) If you've driven along the Thruway over the years, you're familiar with a 30 foot Indian statue nea...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Declining enrollment and significant financial challenges have resulted in decisions to close Holy Family S...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The third and final candidate for the permanent job as Buffalo School superintendent on Mondayvisited the c...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The Business First list of teacher pay scales is out, and a suburban school district is at the top again.T...
Angola, NY (WBEN) A student was found deadon the grounds ofLake Shore HIgh School Thursday. She apparently took her own life....
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The Buffalo School district's latest plan for teacher evaluations has been approved by the state educa...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Two of the three candidates for Buffalo School Superintendent met with reporters on Thursday at City Hall i...
A Buffalo School bus has collided into a house in South Buffalo, caving in the front part of the dwelling and sending the dri...
West Seneca (WBEN) --The state's education commissioner on Wednesday discussed the situation involving the evaluation pla...
(WBEN) New York State's new cap on property tax increases appears to have played a role in the rejection of at least two ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - It's been going on for months. The State Education Commissioner, the Buffalo Public schools, and the...
(WBEN) College's throughout Western New York are holding graduation ceremonies this weekend. More than 1,400 SUNY Fredoni...
Four days after the Clarence Middle School girls lacrosse team was suspended for reportedly usingracial slurs, the district&#...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN)State education Commissioner John King has sent a letter to the Buffalo Public Schools, saying three restar...
BUFFALO, NY (WBEN) -A walk out protest by Buffalo teachers as New York State Education Commissioner John King spokeat the New...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) As the debate continues in Washington over how to cover the costs of not doubling federal student loan int...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The District Parent Coordinating Councilasked the Buffalo School Board to back its efforts to continue figh...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The deadline for a signature has come and gone, and the Buffalo Schools will try to argue to save some fede...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The Board of Regents has gone along with the state education department's recommendation to close Pinn...
Buffalo (WBEN) --Some parents of Buffalo schoolkids have asked the teachers' union to accept an evaluation plan so the di...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- A delegation of theBuffalo Teachers Federation (BTF) has voted to reject the revised outline of a teacher-e...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Buffalo Schools interim superintendent Amber Dixon says there's an ultimatum of May 1st to come up wit...
Evans, NY (WBEN) Police in Evans are at Lake Shore Central High School after graffiti was found in a student bathroom Tuesday...
BALTIMORE - Two public school teachers and a school administrator are sharing the spoils of last month's record Mega mill...
Williamsville, NY (WBEN) While textbooks are still the norm in Williamsville schools, there is one pilot program underway whe...
Thee Kenmore Tonawanda School District has approved two propositions that were put before voters as a way to help trim the di...
If recent history is a guide, less than half of the freshmen arriving on college campuses as part of the class of 2016 this f...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The Buffalo Public Schools were given a one week extension to come up with a teacher evaluation plan satis...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The State Education Department has rejected the revised teacher-evaluation system that the Buffalo School D...
Elma, NY (WBEN) Erie County Sheriff's deputies say a teenager with an air rifle led to a brief lockdown at St. Vincent de...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The Buffalo Public Schools says it has submitted a teacher evaluation plan to the state.Speaking outside L...
Rochester, NY (WBEN) Earlier this week, 30 University of Rochester students formed a line separating a class from its profess...
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) -- Educators must decide the fate of a junior high teacher placed on paid administrative leave amid claim...
In a move that district officials say jeopardizes over $9 million in state aid, members of the Buffalo Teacher's unio...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) In a special meeting of the Buffalo School Board, members unanimously called upon the Buffalo Teachers Fed...
CHARDON, Ohio (WBEN/AP) - An official says the teenage suspect in the deadly Ohio school shooting told authorities he stole t...
CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is belo...
CHARDON, Ohio (WBEN/AP) -- A gunman opened fire inside a high school cafeteria at the start of the school day Monday, killing...
NEW YORK (AP) -- At Columbia University and elsewhere, the fear that the New York Police Department might secretly be infiltr...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A deal has been struck on a new teacher evaluation system that should ensure New York gets $1 billion...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN)- Students at Sweet Home Middle School were greeted by Amhrest Police cars this morning as they arrived to ...
Ashley Hassett joined the WBEN news team in December 2011.She was born and raised in Buffalo and currently living in Cheektow...
LeRoy, NY (WBEN) The LeRoy Central School District says parents can learn results of environmental testing conducted by a fir...
LeRoy, NY (WBEN) The superintendent of the LeRoy school district has issued a letter to the community regarding a mystery ill...
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) -- A fire tore through a private home being rented by Marist College students near campus early Satur...
LEROY, N.Y. (AP) - A dozen western New York high school girls have developed involuntary tics and other symptoms, and a docto...
North Collins, NY(WBEN)Troopers charged threeNorth Collins High School students with 7th degree Criminal Possession of a Cont...
Lakeview, NY(WBEN)Southtowns Catholic School will be closed for the remainder of the week after the roof was blown off the sc...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN) Gov. Andrew Cuomo is threatening to withhold state aid from school districts to force tougher evaluations f...
Niagara Falls, NY(WBEN)As police search for burglary suspects, Maple Avenue Elementary School in Niagara Falls was under lock...
Salamanca, NY(WBEN)Aconflict between two students led to a 15 year old becoming distraught to the point a brief lockdown was ...
Albany (WBEN/AP) -- New York state Education Commissioner John B. King is suspending millions of dollars in grants to 10 scho...
Kenworth of Buffalo has opened a full service facility in Colonie, New York. The truck company has four locations across the ...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)The USDepartment of Education has awarded a $6 million grant to the BuffaloPromise Neighborhood, an effo...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)The Buffalo School Board has approved a turnaround plan for Bilingual Center School 33, one of the schools o...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to introduce legislation that would require college and high school coaches to re...
Amherst, NY(WBEN)Governor Cuomo came to the UBNorth campus Tuesday, bearing a $35 million gift to help the school move it...
Exclusive WBENAudio On The WBENLiveline Tom Burns, Niagara University ...
Tonawanda (WBEN) --Members of theKenmore East girls varsity basketball team arebeing suspended from school for using a chant ...
Wilson SchoolDistrict officials confirm to WBENthat they are investigating reports that two of their elementary school teache...
Kenmore, NY(WBEN)The Ken-TonSchool District is inviting parents, residents, and other community leaders to take part in an an...
(WBEN/AP) Several Williamsville North High School students have been suspended in the wake of the investigation into the suic...
Lafayette Township, PA(WBEN/Release) -- Ateenager on a charity tripto Buffalo has died in a crash in Pennsylvania.18-year-old...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)On October 7, 2003, 13 year old Ryan Halligan committed suicide after years of torment in school and online....
State College, Pa. (AP/WBEN) -- Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary, a key witness in the child sex abuse scandal that h...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)The Buffalo Sabres' owner has issued a statement on the events at Penn State. TerryPegula says, “The e...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN) The Western New York Regional Economic Development Council has released its five year strategic plan.Read t...
LeRoy, NY(WBEN)The LeRoy Central School District has posted a message on its website alerting parents to the cases of several...
(WBEN) Astudent suspect isat large after slashing at and injuring another femaleBurgard High School student Thursday morning,...
(AP/WBEN) New York was the only state to see a decline in its math score for fourth graders in a national assessment of publi...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)The man convicted of fatally shooting a high school freshman will spend 25 years to life in bars.Norman Koon...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)Erie County Health officials have conducted tests on some 50 Buffalo Public Schools students for tuberculosi...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)Business First has ranked Western New York schools for more than two decades, but how do they stack up to di...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A history teacher amends his lessons on the civil rights movement to include the push for gay equality. A...
One day after a 15-year-old Pioneer High School student was arrested for bringing a handgun to school a second student has no...
Yorkshire, NY(WBEN)A 15 year old student is in custody after Cattaraugus County Sheriff's deputies say a handgun was found in...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)It's become an annual tradition at St.Joseph's Collegiate Institute: a candidate debate in a key race during...
(WBEN) Overnight, vandals broke into the Royalton-Hartland School District bus garage anddid damage, triggering a two hour de...
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Buffalo, NY(WBEN)As many of Jamey Rodemeyer's friends and classmates await the results of an investigation ot decide if charg...
West Seneca, N.Y. (WBEN) -West Seneca School District officials have taken the unusual step of talking openly about a student...
(WBEN) The Williamsville School District has apparently suspended a student involved in the harassment of JameyRodemeyer's si...
(WBEN) The Williamsville School District has apparently suspended a student involved in the harassment of JameyRodemeyer's si...
(WBEN)Buffalo- Faced with the expected addition of even more under performing schools to the state's danger list, theState Ed...
On The WBENLiveline: Williamsville PTSA Co-Pres. Dawn Cerra ...
On The WBENLiveline: Prof. Ann Suchnya, School Psychologist ...
In light of the suicide death of Jamey Rodemeyer, 14, in Williamsville, Buffalo's Early News and WBEN.com look at the region'...
Amherst police are investigating an apparent student suicide at Williamsville High School, where the parents say the student ...
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