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Over 250 closings today! A week after nearly 60 degree temps we are telling you school closings today--only in Buffalo! As of March 14, all Erie County officials will still report to work. A Winter Storm Warning is in effect through Wednesday at 8 PM, where WNY is expected to total about a foot of snow over a few days...

Congratulations to all of the graduates this June! Lets check if your kid's school district ranked in the top 15 best WNY school districts from Business First. The annual list from Buffalo Business First uses a massive formula to determine the list including, the four previous years test and graduation performance provided by New York State...

They're trying to get the attention of Ellen Degeneres! Elmwood Franklin School in Buffalo has been letting loose and showing how a school who gets the job done can still be a laid back, fun atmosphere for both the students and the faculty...

Last year, eight school districts, out of about 700 in New York State, failed their budget. This year two failed in WNY. Akron Central - Passed Albion Central - Passed Alden Central - Passed Alexander Central - Passed Alfred - Almond Central - Passed Allegany - Limestone Central - Passed Amherst Central - Passed Andover Central - Passed Attica Central Schools - Passed Barker Central - Passed Bata

There is no doubt that when you get an education here in Western New York, you are getting one of the best educations not only in the state but in the entire county. New York has some of the best education programs in the country and Western New York adds to that value. ...

Each week we're going to highlight some of the most bravest, encouraging and ultimately, inspiring people that make other people's day better. It won't take much effort to make a small action to make someone's day better. Now, this teacher started every day spending the first ten minutes of each day not teaching...

What do you think about this move by a Superintendent in North Carolina? Though many young kids are taught "please" is "the magic word," one school in Charlotte, North Carolina, actually asks its teachers to use the word as little as possible...

It's 2015, which makes this story that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of the Salem witch trials all the more bizarre.

Seriously? This is embarrassing! How do you even leave it up long without someone from the school catching it?

Mr. and Mrs. Rossi decided to take their two kids out of school for a few days for a vacation in Boston to watch dad run the Boston Marathon that they deemed 'educational' to the principal. They got a little bit of a shock when they returned home from Boston to this note from the school officials saying that their vacation would not count as 'excused absences'...

Stories like this remind you just how far parenting goes OFF THE RAILS these days. Principal, Cari Thomson at Woodland Middle School in Woodland, Washington.  A seventh grade kid was having a severe asthma attack last month and didn't have his inhaler so, she stepped in and gave her prescription inhaler on her. ...

I went to Lancaster High School where during my high school career some of the weirdest things were banned. Going down the laundry shoot and bouncy balls were a couple of them I can remember. The laundry shoot. You would think you didn't have to tell people to go down a laundry shoot, right...