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Wake school board set for final vote on religious instruction during school day
The board is set to give final approval to a policy amendment that would implement a new state requirement allowing students to be excused for one hour per week for religious instruction, as one group appears poised to take advantage of those rules in at least one Wake school.
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Microsoft commits to sweeping AI privacy rules for students. Will other tech giants follow?
Millions of students every day turn to AI chatbots for help with schoolwork, emotional support and personal advice — often unaware of where their conversations and other personal information end up.
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Protect College Sports Act gets renewed push and fresh opposition as college football returns
With college football in full swing, proponents of the Protect College Sports Act have launched an all-out blitz to push the legislation through the Senate before the chamber breaks in the coming weeks.
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A Vermont man is on trial for shooting 3 Palestinian students. He claimed the CIA told him to do it
Jason Eaton insisted he was acting on orders from the CIA and Mossad when he shot three Palestinian college students who were walking past his home a few days after Thanksgiving. He said the U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies transmitted the messages to him via FM radio and that God was comma...
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Hundreds gather in eastern Congo to mourn victims of school fires
BUKAVU, Congo (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered on Monday at a mass funeral in eastern Congo to mourn 27 young victims of a fire that engulfed two schools, as families wept and officials laid down wreaths and made speeches.
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Serbia's protesting youth formally join race challenging Vucic before next month's election
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — University students behind nearly two years of anti-government protests in Serbia on Monday formally entered the election race before an early parliamentary vote, challenging populist President Aleksandar Vucic.
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NC receives $4M to expand soft skills training for high school students
About 6,000 more North Carolina students will have a secondary high school transcript that lists their skills, in addition to their primary academic transcript, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction announced Monday.
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Mahmoud Khalil lawsuit says Columbia failed to protect pro-Palestinian activists
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is suing Columbia University, alleging it failed to address harassment against him and other members of a pro-Palestinian campus group. The suit filed Monday in federal court in New York City says the university's deliberate indifference led to the doxing of mu...
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NC education leaders look to recalculate key school-performance metric
School systems often tout how many of their schools met or exceeded expectations for test-score improvement. But the state is exploring changing it.
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25 years after saving dozens of children at NYC daycare, Louisburg teacher still haunted by 9/11
Tara Jones, a Louisburg teacher, told WRAL News that she doesn't take teaching children for granted in her decades-long career; not in 2026, and not on September 11, 2001, when she was working at a daycare blocks away from the Twin Towers.
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In an age of instant answers, educators say there's a case for letting kids struggle a little
When children forget their lunch, can't solve a math problem or don't know how to get somewhere, the instinct for parents can be to step in immediately. But sometimes, the problem is an opportunity.
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High school stabbing in Croatia leaves 2 wounded and attacker detained
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A student in a high school in Croatia's capital, Zagreb, on Friday stabbed and wounded another student and a janitor, authorities said.
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Former hockey players at University of Michigan sue, say they were sexually abused decades ago
DETROIT (AP) — More than a dozen former hockey players are suing the University of Michigan, alleging their coach and other staff were aware of sexual hazing that included the forced shaving of their genitals and other abuse by teammates decades ago.
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Fire in eastern Congo kills at least 26 students at 2 schools
A fire has swept through two schools in Bukavu, eastern Congo, killing at least 26 students and injuring dozens more. The South Kivu provincial government reports that 19 girls and seven boys died, and the death toll could rise. The fire began in a house and spread to the schools, trapping studen...
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Across the US, 'Friday night lights' provide a sense of community — and, for some, a way out
ALIQUIPPA, Pa. (AP) — The phone calls, all asking the same question, started coming long before the lights at “The Pit” flickered on for the first time this fall.
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Suspected gunman in Thailand kindergarten shooting surrenders after 18-hour standoff
BANGKOK (AP) — A police officer who allegedly gunned down his wife at the kindergarten where she was a teacher in eastern Thailand surrendered Thursday after an overnight standoff with authorities, officials said.
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Families grieve in the ruins of an Iranian school where a US strike killed dozens of children
The Shajareh Tayyebeh school in the southern Iranian city of Minab has become a place to wrestle with grief and preserve the memories of some 120 children killed here by an American airstrike on the first day of the war on Iran. At least one U.S. missile hit the school that morning in Minab, acco...
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North Carolina's kindergarten vaccination rates show vulnerability to measles amid US outbreaks
North Carolina students are returning to class this fall amid outbreaks of measles across the U.S. PolitiFact examines kindergarten vaccination trends across the nation.
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Wake schools plans 'major shift' in new HVAC, facilities plan
Wake County Public School System leaders are looking at consulting with an outside group on a plan that would overhaul the district's approach to facilities. It faces $800 million in deferred maintenance, about a quarter of that for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning.
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Americans' satisfaction with schools is at a low point, new Gallup poll shows
Americans' satisfaction with the quality of K-12 education in the country has hit a low point, driven by a growing political divide and concerns that schools are not preparing children for college and future jobs.
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NC auditor: It might be time to change the math as lottery sales soar, money to schools doesn't
The North Carolina Education Lottery has for years not met its goal of giving out at least 38% of proceeds to public education, which mostly includes K-12 schools, according to a state audit. A state statute indicates that at least 50% should go toward paying out winnings, the auditor said.
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Most states prompt schools to teach about 9/11, but the details differ, AP finds
Telling the story of 9/11 has become the labor of U.S. schools now that about 1/3 of Americans weren’t yet born on Sept. 11, 2001. The Associated Press has found that a growing majority of states — at least 40 — now expect or suggest that public schools address 9/11 in some way. According to data...
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The Iranian school struck in the war's earliest attacks is now a memorial for children
The Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran, is now a memorial for children and others killed in the Feb. 28 attacks that sparked the war with the United States and Israel. Iranian officials have reported over 100 student deaths. The Trump administration has not accepted responsibility or release...
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Nearly 2,000 fall ill in suspected food poisoning linked to Indonesia's free school meals program
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Nearly 2,000 people, most of them students, fell ill in suspected food poisoning outbreaks linked to President Prabowo Subianto ’s flagship Free Nutritious Meals program this week, raising fresh concerns about food safety as the government rapidly expands the multibillio...
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'An abandonment': UNC faculty, students raise concerns over campus alert system
UNC Faculty addressed Chancellor Lee Roberts and UNC Police Chief Brian James after a man was taken into custody on campus, accused of shouting racial slurs at Black students during a watch party.
