The school says the move is practical - but it echoes a wider debate over the role of uniforms.

Proponents say relaxed uniforms make life easier for children and are much more practical for physical play.

To uniform or not to uniform? For an increasing number of school districts and institutions that is, indeed, the question. But we’re not here to hash out the merits of the arguments on either side of ...

There’s something about a student in uniform, muses Principal Rudolph Saunders as he scans the busy lunchroom here at Stephen Decatur Middle School. Under Decatur’s policy, all students wear the ...

Many families have trouble affording them, but school uniforms can be important to learning, said Racquel Johnson, a social worker at Walter L. Cohen High School. “When they (students) look good, they ...