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The Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation donated $60,000 to the New Bedford School Department to continue funding the "Play Works" program, which encourages school staff and students to work together to teach social and emotional skills at recess and in the classroom.

A growing number of women's colleges are welcoming transgender women on campus after refusing to admit them for years.

Dr. Pia Durkin begins her fifth year as Superintendent of New Bedford Schools.  She talked with WBSM's Jim Phillips about the challenges ahead. Townsquare Sunday with Jim Phillips can be heard each Sunday at 6am on WBSM 1420 and WBSM...

New Bedford's new state-of-the-art elementary school for the South End won't be ready when the new school year begins on August 31. In a letter dated July 31, New Bedford Schools Superintendent Dr. Pia Durkin informs parents and students that the new Irwin Jacobs Elementary School will not be opened in time for the upcoming school year...

NEW BEDFORD - New Bedford Police are investigating a reported theft from the Nativity Preparatory School. A school official told police that two men were seen taking a wheelbarrow full of tools from the private school in downtown New Bedford...

NEW BEDFORD - New Bedford Police are investigating after vandals have targeted the Roosevelt Middle School in the city's South End. Arthur Motta, Community and Public Affairs Manager for New Bedford Public Schools, says police responded to a security alarm at Roosevelt Middle School Wednesday at 3:18 a...

A new bill heading to a public hearing at the statehouse could ban all Native American mascots from Massachusetts schools.

NEW BEDFORD - Three students were transported to St. Luke's Hospital this morning after an accident involving a car and a school bus. Massachusetts State Police say the accident occurred near the Coggeshall Street exit on I-195 westbound just before 8 a...

DARTMOUTH - The Dartmouth Police Department is crossing its collective fingers ahead of Tuesday's town election. That's when residents will decide whether to approve a $13 million debt exclusion to build a new headquarters at the site of the former Gidley School...

ACUSHNET - The making of homemade slime seems to be all the rage among kids today, but officials at Acushnet's Ford Middle School aren't having any of it. Principal Michelle Silvia sent a notification to parents Wednesday saying that the homemade slime has been brought to school as a toy, and in some cases has been sold to other students...