But this year's speech held a little more weight, not necessarily by what was said, but who it was said by. This year, Stanford legend and four-time Olympian Katie Ledecky was the speaker at this ...

Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson made a special appearance to give the keynote speech and congratulate the fifth-graders at the graduation ceremony for Zeta Charter Schools’ South Bronx ...

Ebbie and Lavondria Herbert participated in what would have been their daughter, Skylar’s, 5th-grade graduation ceremony on Wednesday. “It was hard for us just being there to see all the other kids ...

Fifth grader Cal Cockerham takes a bite from a cupcake after the fifth grade graduation ceremony at Great Lakes Elementary School on Tuesday, June 10.

“If you know this last one, fifth grade, say it with us," the room of soon-to-be middle schoolers echoed the end of the speech. "‘Different isn’t weird, sad, bad or strange.