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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Manuel and Marcy Silva combed through the charred rubble that used to be their home, searching for any salvageable bits in the wake of the largest wildfire in New Mexico history. Manuel found two of his high school wrestling medals. Gone was the bedroom furniture Marcy's grandfather built as a gift, her [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to results of a national test that provide the sharpest look yet at the scale of the crisis. Across the country, math scores saw their [...]
WASHINGTON — With several billion dollars in federal money secured for drought-stricken western states, managers and officials on the Rio Grande are hopeful some will reach their communities and bring attention to the challenges facing one of North America's longest rivers. Stretches of the river near Albuquerque, N.M., went dry for the first time in [...]
BOSTON (AP) — Vivian Kargbo thought her daughter's Boston school district was doing the right thing when officials kept classrooms closed for most students for more than a year. Kargbo, a caregiver for hospice patients, didn't want to risk them getting COVID-19 and extending pandemic school closures through the spring of 2021 is what many [...]
JAY, Maine (AP) — Across the country, families are looking to the winter with dread as energy costs soar and fuel supplies tighten. The Department of Energy is projecting sharp price increases for home heating compared with last winter and some worry whether heating assistance programs will be able to make up the difference for [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Education Department has begun accepting applications for President Joe Biden's student debt cancellation — a plan that makes 43 million Americans eligible for at least some debt forgiveness. Borrowers were notified last week that an early, "beta launch" version of a new online form was made available as the department looks [...]
SEATTLE (AP) — The shooting deaths of two Connecticut officers and wounding of a third punctuated an especially violent week last week for police across the country and fit into a grim pattern: Even as more officers left their jobs in the past two years, the number targeted and killed rose. According to organizations that [...]
As many schools across the country grapple with teacher shortages, some are turning to candidates without teaching certificates or formal training. Alabama administrators increasingly have hired educators with emergency certifications. Texas, meanwhile, allowed about one in five new teachers to sidestep certification last school year. In Oklahoma, an "adjunct" program allows schools to hire applicants [...]
ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — A shortage of child care has become so acute that it’s reaching far into rural communities, including one northwestern Oregon county where future embryos are in line for a spot at Amy Atkinson’s nursery and preschool. “We have children that have not been implanted yet that are on our waitlist,” said [...]
DENVER — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland recently announced an expansion of a National Park Service historical site dedicated to the massacre by U.S. troops of more than 200 Native Americans in what is now southeastern Colorado. Haaland, the first Native American to lead a U.S. Cabinet agency, made the announcement during a solemn ceremony at [...]