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By Susan Montoya Bryan | Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday signed legislation to provide free school meals to all students regardless of family income, as New Mexico and several other states look to fill the gap left by lapsed federal pandemic-era benefit programs and address the strain to family budgets caused by food prices.

Arkansas became the fourth state to ban transgender students from using the bathroom that matches their gender identity on Tuesday after Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the bill into law.The new legislation will prohibit students at charter and public schools from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade from using multiple-occupancy bathrooms that differ from their assigned sex at birth.

Republican lawmakers in Florida are proposing bills that will prevent staff from addressing students with pronouns other than the ones they were assigned at birth.The bills would also make it the policy of state schools that sex is an immutable biological trait.Legislators introduced six bills that seek to alter the type of education students receive before the start of the Sunshine State's legislative session in early March.

English speakers are no stranger to using certain German words when speaking Englishschadenfreude and kindergarten being perhaps the most obvious.The process is possibly even more advanced in reverse.Many Germans are proud of being able to speak English well, and the Berlin Wall's fall in 1989 only accelerated the process, as a redefined international community with English as the main global language beckoned.

Although many children have returned to school and nursery, not every mum has the help she needs yet.For most of the first year after her daughter was born in early 2022, Katie Szerbin worked from home, managing customer service calls all day, without any kind of childcare.Each time her child began to cry, the 30-year-old mother from New Jersey, US, had to leave the room.

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Carson Steele's smile radiates California sunshine.His blond locks symbolize California cool.His pet alligator back home in Greenwood, Ind., signifies something entirely different.Something more authentic, perhaps?Certainly, the alligator he named Crocky-J at age 9 even though it's not a crocodile provides insights into Steele's upbringing and ties to his family.

In the futile and hopeless hours of familiar gridlock after the most recent mass shooting in Nashville, the social media meme war that serves as proxy for our political process launched again into overdrive.Some themes were familiar: Republicans love guns more than they love children; the party that purports to revere life seems unwilling to do anything to stop mass murder.

Care and Feeding is Slate's parenting advice column.Dear Care and Feeding, Have a question for Care and Feeding?Submit it here.I am a new mom of 1-year-old twins, "Bella" and "Iris".When I was pregnant, my husband and I decided that we wanted to give our girls names that we liked, as opposed to both of our families' traditions of using family names (think "Dorothy" and "Ethel," which are good names, just not our style).

On Monday, March 28, a shooter opened fire at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, killing six people - three 9-year-old children, Hallie Scruggs, William Kinney, and Evelyn Dieckhaus; and three adults, 60-year-old Katherine Koonce, the head of school; 61-year-old Mike Hill, the school custodian; and 61-year-old Cynthia Peak.

Visitors flocked to see Michelangelo's David sculpture in Florence on Tuesday, following an uproar over a Florida school's decision to force the resignation of the principal over complaints about a lesson featuring the Renaissance masterpiece.Tourists, many of them Americans on spring break or studying abroad, posed for selfies in front of the giant marble statue, which features the Biblical David, naked with a sling over his shoulder and a rock in his hand, ready for battle with Goliath.

Visitors stand in front of Michelangelo's David statue in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, Italy, on Tuesday.A Florida school principal was forced to resign following parental complaints that an image of the nude Renaissance masterpiece was shown to a sixth-grade art class.Alessandra Tarantino/AP FLORENCE, Italy Visitors flocked to see Michelangelo's David sculpture in Florence on Tuesday, following an uproar over a Florida school's decision to force the resignation of the principal over complaints about a lesson featuring the Renaissance masterpiece.

Visitors stand in front of Michelangelo's "David statue" in the Accademia Gallery in Florence, Italy, Tuesday, March 28, 2023.The Florence museum and the city's mayor are inviting parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit and see Michelangelo's sculpture of David.The invitation comes after the school principal was forced to resign following parental complaints that an image of the nude Renaissance masterpiece was shown to a sixth-grade art class.

A school principal in Tallahassee, Florida has been fired following parental complaints about a lesson on Michelangelo's masterpiece David (1501-04), deemed "pornographic" by one aggrieved parent.The now-former principal, Hope Carrasquilla, informed the Huffington Post that, due to a "series of miscommunications", a customary letter informing parents of students at Tallahassee Classical School about this feature of the sixth-grade art history curriculum was not sent out, further contributing to parents' outrage.

Wallkill, N.Y., isn't hip, and it barely has a downtown but homes there often cost less and come with more land than those in higher-profile Hudson Valley communities.After a two-year search, Vanessa Stanton found in this Ulster County hamlet not to be confused with the larger town of Wallkill in Orange County, about 15 miles southwest what she had been unable to find in places like Hudson and Rhinebeck: a four-bedroom house with a sleek kitchen and a pool on more than five acres.

Brightly coloured volumes and angular forms characterise this nursery in the Czech Republic, which was designed by Czech studio Architektura to echo childhood playfulness.Located in Říčany, a town in the Prague-East District, the Větrník Kindergarten features a gym, garden, classrooms and a playground, spread across coloured blocks that branch out from a central white structure.

FLORIDA, USA A Florence museum on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to view Michelangelo's David in person after the school principal was forced to resign following parental complaints that an image of the nude Renaissance masterpiece was shown to a sixth-grade art class.

Florence Mayor Dario Naardella has invited parents, students and a teacher fired from the Tallahassee Classical School in Florida to come to Italy and judge firsthand whether Michelangelo Buonarroti's 1504 sculpture of the Old Testament hero David is in fact pornography.The invitation was extended after the school's principal, Hope Carrasquilla, was forced to resign when parents vociferously complained about images of the five-meter (17 foot) tall marble sculpture being shown to sixth graders as part of a Renaissance art history course.

The Florence museum housing Michelangelo's Renaissance masterpiece the David invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson featuring the statue forced the principal to resign.Florence Mayor Dario Nardella also tweeted an invitation for the principal to visit so he can personally honor her.

ROME - A Florence museum on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to view Michelangelo's "David" in person after the school principal was forced to resign following parental complaints that an image of the nude Renaissance masterpiece was shown to a sixth-grade art class.

A union representing 30,000 Los Angeles school custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers and other support staff has started a three-day strike with support from the district's teachers, effectively stopping classes for more than a half million students in the nation's second-largest school system.

Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula's annexation from Ukraine on Saturday, the day after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes.Putin visited an art school and a children's center that are part of a project to develop a historical park on the site of an ancient Greek colony, Russian state news agencies said.

KYIV, Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula's annexation from Ukraine on Saturday, the day after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes.Putin visited an art school and a children's center that are part of a project to develop a historical park on the site of an ancient Greek colony, Russian state news agencies said.

Parents, residents, and local business leaders can now apply as voting movers and shakers for their Community Education Council and Citywide Education Council.Applications are still open - but not for much longer - for four positions on both councils: Parent Member (elected), Borough President Appointee, Public Advocate Appointee, and Student Member (non-voting).

Families with young children have a variety of early learning program options in Santa Clara County.Enrollment for next school year is already underway.Families who are interested in enrolling their child in preschool, transitional kindergarten (TK) or kindergarten can do so each year starting as early as December in some of Santa Clara County's school districts.

Cróga, the baby loggerhead turtle who washed up on a beach in northwest Ireland after a months-long, 4,000-mile journey that nearly killed her.(Dingle Oceanworld Aquarium)A family strolling on a beach in Ireland earlier this month spotted a seafarer that had washed up on the rocks.Her body was battered.

KYIV, Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula's annexation from Ukraine on Saturday, the day after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes.Putin visited an art school and a children's center that are part of a project to develop a historical park on the site of an ancient Greek colony, Russian state news agencies said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media after a summit in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on June 30, 2022.Putin traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula's annexation from Ukraine on Saturday.Dmitry Azarov/AP KYIV, Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula's annexation from Ukraine on Saturday, the day after the International Criminal Court' issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes.

Strikes on multiple fronts, including capital Kyiv and the western Lviv province, come hours after ICC's announcement.Widespread Russian attacks have continued in Ukraine following the International Criminal Court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia's commissioner for children's rights.

A damaged restaurant is seen after Russian shelling hit in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Saturday, March 18, 2023.(AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)KYIV, Ukraine - Widespread Russian attacks continued in Ukraine following the International Criminal Court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia's commissioner for children's rights.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, who's likely to launch a bid for president this spring, got a less than warm reception from Mayor Eric Adams during his visit to the five boroughs on Monday.