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A small town in central Thailand is mourning the 23 who died in a school bus fire
LAN SAK, Thailand (AP) — A small town in central Thailand prepared for a somber mass funeral Thursday for the 23 children and teachers who died in a horrific bus fire while on a school trip. Some residents and monks waited past midnight at Wat Khao Phraya Sangkharam, the Buddhist...
Bodies of the children and teachers who died in a Thai school bus fire return home for funeral
LAN SAK, Thailand (AP) — The bodies of almost two dozen young students and teachers who died in a bus fire in a suburb of Bangkok were returned late Wednesday to central Thailand, where they began their ill-fated school field trip. Friends, relatives and Buddhist monks waited past...
UC says federal law prevents it from hiring undocumented students. A lawsuit seeks to change that
Members of the coalition that’s been pushing to get the University of California to hire its undocumented students for campus jobs are now suing the university system, days after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have made such employment a reality. The suit, filed Tuesday...
How one preschool uses PAW Patrol to teach democracy
ANNANDALE, Va. (AP) — As lawmakers voted on a budget deal at the U.S. Capitol, a different kind of balloting was taking place a dozen miles away in a sun-filled Virginia preschool classroom. At stake: which animated dog was the best character on the cartoon “PAW Patrol.” In a...
Ex-leaders of a Penn State frat will spend time in jail for their roles in a hazing death
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — The former president and vice president of a Penn State fraternity where pledge Timothy Piazza fell and later died after consuming a large amount of alcohol received jail sentences Tuesday. Brendan Young, 28, who was president of the now-defunct chapter of...
As heat rises, California kids are sweltering in schools with no air conditioning
In her fifth grade class in a Los Angeles school, on a day when outdoor temperatures reached 116 degrees, the heat gave Lilian China headache. The air conditioner in her classroom was broken. Her fingers felt numb and she vomited in class, according to her mother. The nurse wasn’t available, so...
Virginia school board to pay $575K to a teacher fired for refusing to use trans student's pronouns
WEST POINT, Va. (AP) — A Virginia school board has agreed to pay $575,000 in a settlement to a former high school teacher who was fired after he refused to use a transgender student’s pronouns, according to the advocacy group that filed the suit. Conservative Christian legal...
A battered child care industry’s latest challenge? Competing for 4-year-olds.
Gingerbread Kids Academy owner Tim Kaminski can easily tick off examples of how tough it is to keep a child care business open more than four years after the pandemic hit. Before COVID-19 came to the United States in 2020, Kaminski had 45 employees and averaged up to 130 children...
California governor signs law banning college legacy and donor admissions
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Private, nonprofit colleges in California will be banned from giving preference in the admissions process to applicants related to alumni or donors of the school under a new law signed this week by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The goal of the measure passed this...
After playing Weird Barbie, Kate McKinnon's new children's book also celebrates being uniquely you
If you find it odd that Kate McKinnon chose her first book to be for middle-grade kids, the former “Saturday Night Live” star says, think again. “I find sketch comedy and middle school to be very similar,” she said recently over Zoom. “There can be an unabashed silliness in...
