Bugbee Elementary School News Today

Longtime educator was a strong advocate for children, no matter what their background was

A 9-year-old girl in Milton, Massachusetts, has questions for her mother one afternoon upon arriving home from school. “What does bisexual mean?” she asks. It turns out that the librarian read a book to the class about Harvey Milk and the history of the rainbow flag and gave a directive to the 8- and 9-year-olds to remember the letters “LGBTQ.”

Expansion of a federal program that made school lunch and breakfast free for every child is expected to expire this summer, leaving families who relied on it through the pandemic to again shoulder the cost.

You are never too young to help take care of our planet, and at one West Hartford school, kids are doing just that. Hundreds of students in kindergarten through...

West Hartford officials have experienced death threats and criticism from some parents to social emotional learning in the curriculum.

The entirety of West Hartford Public Schools is going remote for the first time this school year starting next week, according to the superintendent of the town’s school system. Superintendent Tom Moore said in an interview this week that the district would implement distance learning through Wednesday because of considerations such as maintaining sufficient staff and being able to follow through with contact tracing. The change was first announced in a Dec. 11 message from Moore addressed...