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Protests erupted outside Los Angeles elementary school's Pride month assembly
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police officers separated groups of protesters and counterprotesters Friday outside a Los Angeles elementary school that has become a flashpoint for Pride month events across California. People protesting a planned Pride assembly outside the Los Angeles Unified...
Editorial Roundup: New England
Hearst Connecticut Media. June 1, 2023. Editorial: Allow Parole Board to do its job For a place that is well down the list of most dangerous states in America (near the bottom, by most accounts), crime accounts for an outsize share of public debate in Connecticut....
California lawmakers advance bill to cool down outside areas at schools
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As California grapples with how to deal with heat waves made more intense by climate change, schools in the state may soon have to come up with plans for cooling down outside play areas by planting more trees and replacing surfaces like asphalt that swelter on hot days....
Teachers leaving their jobs at an accelerating rate in Pennsylvania, new study finds
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Teachers are leaving their jobs at an accelerating rate in Pennsylvania, amid fears of a nationwide exodus of burned-out teachers and a collapse in enrollment in recruitment programs that is making teachers increasingly difficult to replace. A new analysis by...
Florida drama teacher who includes deaf students in school shows will receive a special Tony Award
NEW YORK (AP) — The special Tony Award that honors educators will go this year to a drama teacher in Florida who has closed the gap between the deaf and hearing worlds by having productions performed in both voice and American Sign Language. Jason Zembuch-Young, artistic director...
Editorial Roundup: Mississippi
Greenwood Commonwealth. May 25, 2023. Editorial: Pension Plan’s Ills Worse Than Stated Maybe it’s not the job of a legislative watchdog group to propose reforms to the unsustainable public pension plan in Mississippi. Or maybe those who do the analysis for...
High school student in Italy wounds teacher with hunting knife, waves toy gun in class
ROME (AP) — A student wounded his teacher with a hunting knife and brandished what turned out to be a toy gun at classmates in a high school in a Milan suburb on Monday, police said. Classmates later recounted that the 16-year-old suddenly stood up shortly after classes began in...
West Virginia elementary class writes book about rescued stray kitten
SALEM, W.Va. (AP) — The circumstances of one’s birth are not necessarily indicative of the rest of one’s life. Nothing exemplifies that notion better than Atlas, the Kindergarten Kitten. Salem Elementary School kindergartners, with the help of their teachers, wrote and...
Texas parents fret over Winnie the Pooh being used to teach kids about school shootings
DALLAS (AP) — Cindy Campos' 5-year-old son was so excited about the Winnie the Pooh book he got at school that he asked her to read it with him as soon as he got home. But her heart sank when she realized it was a tutorial about what to do when “danger is near,” advising kids to lock the...
Iowa law limits gender identity instruction, removes books depicting sex acts from school libraries
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa teachers will be banned from raising gender identity and sexual orientation issues with students through grade six, and all books depicting sex acts will be removed from school libraries, under a bill Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Friday. The...
