Education

A pro-slavery petition is the latest racist incident at this Kansas City high school. Parents say they’ve had enough

By Gabrielle Hays

Parents say the district is doing little to mitigate the ongoing problems, including individual attacks on students based on their race.

Here are this year’s MacArthur fellows and ‘genius grant’ recipients

By Don Babwin, Associated Press

The Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Tuesday announced the 25 recipients, who will each receive $625,000.

CDC studies show masks lessen school outbreaks

By Associated Press

One study in two Arizona counties found coronavirus outbreaks were almost four times more common at public schools without mask mandates on the first day than at those that re-opened with a masking requirement.

Florida makes quarantine optional for exposed students

By Mike Schneider, Associated Press

Florida's new surgeon general has signed new protocols allowing parents to decide whether their children should quarantine or stay in school if they are asymptomatic after being exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19.

Lawsuits against Ohio State over sex abuse by doctor are dismissed

By Kantele Franko, Associated Press

A federal judge has dismissed some of the biggest remaining lawsuits filed by men who say Ohio State University officials failed to stop decades-old sexual abuse by now-deceased team doctor Richard Strauss.

COVID-19 vaccine works in kids ages 5 to 11, Pfizer says

By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press

With kids now back in school and the extra-contagious delta variant causing a huge jump in pediatric infections, many parents are anxiously awaiting vaccinations for their younger children.

5 Stories: World’s largest carbon capture plant goes online, Paris landmark goes undercover and other stories you missed

By Deema Zein, Julia Griffin

The world’s largest carbon capture plant is up and running in Iceland, workers fulfill artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s posthumous dream of wrapping the Arc de Triomphe in fabric and school districts across the country face bus driver shortages. Check out…

What returning to school looks and feels like in ‘unpredictable, unprecedented times’

Millions of students are heading back to school in person after a year of online learning. We asked students in our Student Reporting Labs network what returning to in-person learning looks and feels like amid new delta variant concerns, vaccinations…

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School vaccine campaigns targeting students face blowback

By Cedar Attanasio, Associated Press

A return to in-person school this month are raising the stakes for high school students who want to be safe in packed classrooms and homecoming rallies.

Taliban: Women can study in gender-segregated universities

By Kathy Gannon, Associated Press

Women in Afghanistan can continue to study in universities, including at post-graduate levels, but classrooms will be gender-segregated and Islamic dress is compulsory, the Taliban government’s new higher education minister said Sunday.