Jan 07 WATCH: Parents of alleged Oxford school shooter Ethan Crumbley lose bid to reduce bail By Associated Press The Crumbleys have been in jail since Dec. 4 and unable to post their bond. They are charged in a shooting that killed four students at Oxford High School on Nov. 30. Continue reading
Jan 07 As Chicago teachers union negotiations continue, school closures enter third day By Sophia Tareen, Associated Press Classes in Chicago were canceled for a third consecutive day amid an ongoing fight with the teachers union over remote learning and other COVID-19 safety protocols. Continue reading
Jan 06 Schools, hit by teacher shortages due to COVID-19, rely on administrators and parents By Michael Melia, Associated Press Principals, superintendents and counselors are filling in as substitutes in classrooms around the United States as the surge in coronavirus infections further strains schools already struggling with staffing shortages. Continue reading
Jan 05 Activists and historians remember Jim Toy as a pioneering leader in LGBTQ rights By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang “Jim Toy's life is a reminder that LGBT history and LGBT civil rights were also made here in the Midwest, and that Asian Americans and other people of color were a critical part of that movement.”… Continue reading
Jan 05 Chicago cancels classes after union backs remote learning By Sophia Tareen, Associated Press Chicago schools have canceled classes after the teachers union voted to switch to remote learning due to record COVID-19 levels. Continue reading
Jan 04 Chicago public school CEO plans to cancel classes if union votes for remote learning By Sophia Tareen, Associated Press Schools CEO Pedro Martinez's comments Tuesday come as the district and Chicago Teachers Union are locked in an escalating battle over safety protocols in schools. Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch 6:49 Newark schools temporarily return to virtual learning to avoid post-holiday COVID spike By Geoff Bennett, Karina Cuevas Out of nearly 100,000 public schools in the United States, more than 90 percent are back to in-person classes. But concerns over the spread of COVID has led some districts to close for the first two weeks of this new… Continue watching
Jan 03 British government rushing COVID tests to schools so classes can reopen By Mike Corder, Associated Press Schoolchildren have returned to classes in parts of Europe, while the British government is pledging to rush ventilation units and enough COVID-19 test kits to schools to ensure they, too, can reopen later this week despite soaring infection rates. Continue reading
Dec 31 ‘Winnie the Pooh,’ ‘Sun Also Rises,’ Hughes poems among works going public in 2022 By Associated Press "Winnie the Pooh" and "The Sun Also Rises" are among the works from 1926 whose copyrights will expire Saturday, putting them in the public domain in 2022. Continue reading
Dec 30 Recalling influential people who died in 2021 By Bernard McGhee, Associated Press Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are among the many noteworthy people who died in 2021. Also among those who died this year was a man who for years held the title of baseball’s… Continue reading