His life would be a lot easier, he says, if only his 13-year-old attended school in uniform. The first to push for uniforms were families in the city’s poorer neighborhoods.

At the Huntington School in Brockton, students arrive to class each morning dressed smartly in navy blue, khaki, and white. The uniforms make for a familiar scene, now for the fourth year.

Early advocates of uniforms in public schools saw them as a way to reduce gang violence and crime in schools. President Bill Clinton, in his State of the Union address in 1996, gave the movement a ...

A study from the University of Cambridge in the U.K. suggests that school uniform policies could serve as a barrier to children getting daily physical activity. Doctors weighed in.

As students return to school, one patterned textile now synonymous with uniforms will make its seasonal reappearance on pleated skirts, jumpers and ties: plaid. The design has long been a mainstay ...

Baltimore City Mayor Sheila Dixon and city school officials will roll out a plan requiring school uniforms for the city?s 82,000 public school students starting next fall, according to a radio ...

PATERSON — Eight city schools are getting laundry rooms for their students, part of a plan to improve attendance by giving youngsters a place where they can wash dirty school uniforms.