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WINDSOR, Vt. (AP) — Two Vermont teachers are accused of drawing on a new concrete sidewalk, causing about $1,500 in damage.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — An arbitrator says the Buffalo school board was wrong to remove a cosmetic surgery benefit from the teachers' contract.

MADISON, Maine (AP) — A Maine high school unable to fill a vacant teacher position has turned to a foreign language computer program to educate students.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Faced with a teacher shortage, New York education leaders are making it easier for out-of-state teachers to work in the state.

A ninth grader in Texas named Ahmed Mohamed was detained by police after a teacher suspected his homemade clock was a bomb.

This is a very funny Comedy Central skit about an inner-city school teacher struggling to adapt to teaching in a middle-class white school. Beware- contains some profanity. _____________________________________________________________________________ Follow Bill Keeler on Facebook Follow @BillKeeler1 //

There's always a debate out there every year, usually around school budget time, that features some guy complaining that teachers salaries are too high.  That discussion should end right now as long as you take the time to watch this video...

There's certainly been a lot of talk in New York State about our failing schools; so, how bad is it really?  The answer might just surprise you, especially after all of the rhetoric coming over the last several months from Governor Andrew Cuomo who is on a mission to fix New York's broken schools.

A student at Thomas R. Proctor High School in Utica has written an open letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo in regards to his recent budget which holds back millions of dollars in aid to New York Schools. Trinh Truong, a senior at Proctor High, spoke with WIBX's First News with Keeler in the Morning recently and said she wrote the letter to defend public education...

Teachers in the Mohawk Valley region are among the lowest paid teachers in New York, according to an Albany watchdog group. The Empire Center for New York State Policy released their findings on Tuesday which showed that while salaries downstate and in Western New York have increased by more than 11% over the last 6 years, teachers in our area are lagging behind...