School officials are implementing new rules to prevent bullying and improve the mental health of teens. But some of the new policies, like a cellphone ban, are controversial. In 2021, 16 percent of high schoolers said they had been cyber bullied.

"Technology-first solutions left a global majority of learners behind," reads a new report from the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). As a result, learning inequalities became "supercharged."

It's true what they say: a traditional four-year college education isn't for everyone. But virtually every kid who walks the hallways of Township High School District 214's six schools will get a job at some point in their lives.

Washington is one of several communities that have decided to reverse plans to remove school resource officers or increase their numbers as students return to classrooms this fall amid an increase in gunfire in schools.