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Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Saturday touted his administration's success in getting three Chicago elementary schools to agree to extend their day by 90 minutes and urged other schools to follow suit.

Students at a Washington, DC, elementary school ingested cocaine brought to the school by a fellow pupil today, school officials confirmed.

A first-grade teacher at a Silver Spring elementary school was charged with several counts of assault Tuesday, when authorities accused her of choking and, in some cases, punching half the 16 students in her class.

A California elementary school teacher has been suspended indefinitely after school officials said a pair of second-graders performed sex acts in class with the teacher present, San Francisco media reported Friday.

When a classmate started choking on a Cheeto during lunch Wednesday, Tyler Hudson took action.

Long after most kids are home, dozens of 6th graders at Elmhurt Community Prep in Oakland are reading, writing and more, until 5 or 6 o'clock. Their academic bankers hours, which often reflect the workday of their parents, is part of an innovative program run by Citizen Schools, a federally-funded non-profit that targets at-risk middle-schoolers in some of the nation's toughest neighborhoods.

First lady Michelle Obama faced a tough, personal immigration question from a Maryland second-grader Wednesday when she visited an elementary school with her Mexican counterpart, Margarita Zavala.

Fox Charlotte reports that a gun went off inside the desk of a third grader in Charlotte, N.C. It is unclear how the gun went off, but luckily, the bullet missed all 20 students in the classroom and only hit a wall.

A knife-wielding man injured 28 children, two teachers and a security guard in a kindergarten in eastern China, state media reported on Thursday, the fourth such stabbing case in recent weeks.

School lunches have been called many things, but a group of retired military officers is giving them a new label: national security threat.