Just a few days after school ended, playgrounds, classrooms and gymnasiums around Joplin are alive again with students for summer school. Officials said the goal for the summer is to ...

Mark LaTurner has been named assistant principal at Soaring Heights Elementary, and Leslie Coleman will be the next assistant principal at Irving Elementary, the Joplin School District announced ...

About 3,000 Joplin schoolchildren are hitting the books and having fun as summer school kicked off on Wednesday. Jaxon Friend, 6, said he and his friends played with a parachute on their first day ...

School doors open in Joplin, Mo., three months after deadly tornado. By ABC News. August 17, 2011, 8:34 AM. Aug. 17, 2011 -- For a town desperately seeking a return to some sense of normalcy, the ...

JOPLIN, Mo. -- Despite delays caused by the wet spring, three Joplin schools damaged or destroyed by the May 2011 tornado are on target to open as scheduled in December, and district officials are ...

The twister that laid waste to much of Joplin in May hit the school system especially hard: ... "These children don't have a home to live in," said Irving Elementary School's principal, ...