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School districts across the country are hiring additional teachers in anticipation of what will be one of the largest kindergarten classes ever as enrollment rebounds following the coronavirus pandemic. As they await the arrival next fall of students who sat out the current school year, educators are also bracing for many students to be less [...]
CHICAGO — Two people were killed and at least 30 others were wounded in mass shootings in three states over the weekend, authorities said, stoking concerns that a spike in gun violence could continue into summer as coronavirus restrictions ease and more people are free to socialize. The attacks took place late Friday or early [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — As more children go back to the physical classroom and families look to restart their lives, back-to-school spending this year could top pre-pandemic levels, according to one key spending measure. Mastercard SpendingPulse, which tracks spending across all payment forms including cash, forecasts that spending will be up 5.5 percent between July [...]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — When the Asian American Student Union at a Connecticut high school organized a Zoom call following the killing of six Asian women in Atlanta, senior Lily Feng thought maybe 10 or 15 classmates would attend. When she logged on, more than 50 people from her school were online. By the call's [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California state and local officials are encouraging rebuilding in areas destroyed by wildfires at a time when people should be redirected away from those areas if the state wants to reduce the economic and human impact of increasingly destructive wildfires, according to a report published Thursday. State and local policies emphasize [...]
A gulf exists between Ohio teachers and school administrators about the best way to address make-up work for high school students looking to improve final grades from the past academic year. Teachers, through the lobbying efforts of their union — Ohio Education Association, have backed the bipartisan High School Education Recovery Act, which would establish [...]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Summer weather has arrived, and New England tourists are hungry for a lobster roll or a whole cooked lobster — but they're going to have to pay up. Lobster is more expensive than usual this season due to a limited supply, high demand and the reopening of the economy as the [...]
CARSON CITY, Nev. — In Sin City, one thing that will soon become unforgivable is useless grass. A new Nevada law will outlaw about 31 percent of the grass in the Las Vegas area in an effort to conserve water amid a drought that's drying up the region's primary water source: the Colorado River. Other [...]
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Alvaro Enciso plants three or four crosses each week in Arizona's desert borderlands, amid the yellow-blossomed prickly pear and whip-like ocotillo, in honor of migrants who died on the northbound trek. Each colorful wooden memorial denotes where a set of bones or a decomposing body was found. Over eight years, the [...]
The Ohio State University has far exceeded graduation targets it established in 2014, according to a joint announcement by the university and the University Innovation Alliance, which was formed to improve student success. Ohio State has graduated an additional 11,096 students above the university’s baseline projection of 68,000, the statement detailed. The number includes raising [...]