Some parents are protesting half-days in school for 1st graders. Waynesville moving forward with $26M in community development Read more Community News New COVID cases in local schools again rise ...

The Alabama legislature passed a long awaited “first-grade readiness” bill Thursday, which would require students who did not complete kindergarten to take a test to enter the first grade. If signed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most adults have only hazy memories of the early grades in school. So when parents and grandparents watch their little ones march ...

As a girl, Kylie Altier struggled in school. Nervous and shy, she had trouble reading — dyslexia, she learned. “I just really felt like I wasn’t that smart or special,” she remembers. Her first grade ...

Incoming first-graders offered advice to students starting first grade this year. Many students said they were nervous on their first day but made friends quickly. Reading, math and making friends ...

Waynesville school officials are considering making changes in January to the unique approach the district has taken in educating first graders since the beginning of the school year. Due to the ...