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ATLANTA (AP) — Most contractors told them they would tear it down. A two-story five-bedroom Victorian home built around 1900, it was abandoned and collapsing, with vines reaching its rafters. Elegant features were scavenged long ago. The house's place in American history was at risk of disappearing. An Atlanta couple bought the property, nevertheless, hoping [...]
They're known at school as the group of parents who orchestrate everything from Halloween parties to book fairs, but a parent-teacher organization isn't just for the kids. Parents join a PTO for all kinds of reasons. It has helped some revitalize career skills, share passions, find job opportunities and assuage the middle-age friend desert, all [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A record heat wave put California in a fossil fuel conundrum: The state had to rely more heavily on natural gas to produce electricity and avoid power outages while Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration moves toward ending the use of oil and gas. The heat wave that hit the state earlier this [...]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — With legal sports betting in its fifth year in much of the country, things are getting much more intense, with increasing ways to bet and more opportunities to rapidly win — and lose — money. As the NFL season begins, 31 states plus Washington D.C. offer legal sports betting. A [...]
TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A decade ago, Florida's Space Coast was in the doldrums. The space shuttle program had ended and with it the steady stream of space enthusiasts who filled the area's restaurants and hotel and motel rooms during regular astronaut launches. The Kennedy Space Center's 7,400 laid-off shuttle workers struggled to find jobs [...]
BERKELEY, Calif. — Berkeley, an eclectic California city renowned for tie-dyed hippies and high-brow intellectuals, is experiencing a 1960s flashback triggered by People's Park, a landmark that has served as a counterculture touchstone, political stepping stone and refuge for homeless people. The 3-acre site's colorful history, forged from the University of California, Berkeley's seizure of [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As Braylon Price remembers it, he struggled with pretty much everything the first full school year of the pandemic. With minimal guidance and frequent disruptions, he had trouble staying on top of assignments and finishing homework on time. It was so rocky his parents asked for him to repeat sixth grade [...]
WASHINGTON — Math and reading scores for America’s 9-year-olds fell dramatically during the first two years of the pandemic, according to a new federal study — offering an early glimpse of the sheer magnitude of the learning setbacks dealt to the nation’s children. Reading scores saw their largest decrease in 30 years, while math scores [...]
ATLANTA (AP) — Five of the 19 students in teacher Chelsea Grant’s third grade classroom are reading below grade level. When it was time to read aloud on a recent Friday, the students show vastly different levels of skill and confidence. “Remember you read with expression, feeling and fluency,” Grant told her Atlanta students. “I [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Young people are following the news but aren't too happy with what they're seeing. Broadly speaking, that's the conclusion of a new study showing 79 percent of young Americans say they get news daily. The survey of young people ages 16 to 40 — the older of which are known as [...]