The district would not say whether discipline, violence or poor attendance factored into the decision to move Moustafa Khalil to Pfc. William J. Grabiarz School of Excellence.
Hilbert's Board of Trustees has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Valley College, a for-profit college that primarily serves adult students in transitional parts of their lives. Hilbert is a private, four-year Catholic Franciscan college based in Hamburg.
A day after news came out that the principal of McKinley High School had been transferred, videos of students fighting inside the school were shared with Buffalo media from an unidentified email account.
The Buffalo School Board is on a quest to spend $289 million in federal Covid-19-relief funds to better Buffalo schools. On Wednesday, the board got almost $3 million closer to that goal via a career pathway that begins as early as kindergarten.
Moustafa Khalil, appointed McKinley's principal Feb. 11 after the shooting and stabbing at the school that rocked the district, is being transferred to Pfc. William J. Grabiarz School of Excellence.
The first, on the Fourth of July, killed a widely admired local physician and two of his daughters. The second, on New Year’s Eve, left five children, all 10 years old or younger, dead.
A survey of 467 public school superintendents in New York found the mission of schools is expanding.
Buffalo schools have invested close to $1 million in Orton-Gillingham training programs to not only curb learning loss but serve as a building block for the future.
State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli has cited the Silver Creek Central School District for budget practices that caused more property taxes to be levied than were needed.
This is the second consecutive year the cap for school districts has been set at 2%.
Buffalo Seminary's head of school for the past seven years will retire in June.
The governor proposed that SUNY partner with school districts "so that all graduating high school seniors are accepted into their local community college, removing any barrier for high school graduates to postsecondary education."
A newly approved gender identity policy pitted some adults against students at Tuesday night's Orchard Park School Board meeting.
D'Youville University enjoys and employs two Saint Bernards, Saint and Maggie, as school mascots.
Angelie Perez, a senior at International Prep, felt her teacher's grief. The art teacher, Edie Syta, lost her 73-year-old mother in the blizzard. Perez took a pencil to a piece of paper and began drawing Stasia Syta.
East Aurora High School's Rocket Club placed 21st in the nation in the American Rocketry Challenge in the spring. That performance earned the team an invitation to the NASA Student Launch Challenge in Huntsville, Ala., this April.
As students entered International Prep on Friday, they were greeted by a new piece of technology: the Evolv Express weapons detection system. The school was the test site for a high-tech security system expected to be in all district high schools by the end of February.
Buffalo Public Schools officials demonstrated their new Evolv Express weapons detection system on Jan. 6 at International Prep high school on Buffalo's West Side. The new walkthrough system was praised for its speed and different sensitivity levels, as well as being less intrusive compared t…
"We will be a force to deal with moving forward," said Belton-Cottman
Long bus rides and lack of classrooms in some schools are among the reasons why the West Seneca Central School District is looking at redistricting elementary schools.
College of Our Lady of the Elms in Massachusetts found that Brother Michael T. Duffy inappropriately touched a male student while working as a nurse there.
The state of emergency must be called by the chief executive of a village, town, city, county or state.
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Monica Stephens, a parent member of the Buffalo Parent Teacher Organization, shared the results of the group's online survey of Buffalo Public Schools parents at Wednesday's school board meeting: 86% of 337 parents surveyed did not support a change in bell times.
Thurman Thomas still remembers winning a high school state championship in Texas, and he said at Wednesday night's school board meeting that he still reminisces with his teammates. Thomas, the NFL Hall of Fame running back, congratulated and inspired football players from Lewis J. Bennett Sc…
Amid the quest for innovative solutions, members of the School Board and the teachers union have wondered why First Student, the district's private transportation partner that receives about $50 million annually to transport students safely on yellow buses, has not faced any consequences.
The Buffalo Teachers Federation says the Common Council misrepresented its position on a proposal to implement three bell times in schools.
In the aftermath of the shooting at Sandy Hook 10 years ago, several victims' family members turned their tragic loss into what they call a "moment of transformation." It's a transformation that local educators hope will help children in Erie, Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties.
Security will be upgraded in all buildings in the Amherst Central School District following approval in a referendum Tuesday of a $68.7 million capital improvement project.
Appropriate clothing for school is a point of discussion every year. But are dress codes in Longview, Washington, inconsistent and do they unfairly target girls?
Diamond Gray, 34, and Dominique C. Gray, 35, both of Buffalo, have each been charged with second-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child, the Erie County District Attorney's Office said.