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Parents and guardians of children beginning school next September are encouraged to visit their local library branch to collect a free book bag packed with reading materials and resources designed to help children prepare for starting school.

The court dismissed the case, saying the benchmark to determine “disparate impact” is not the applicant pool, but all of Boston's school-age children. “This Court's precedent does not embrace the school-age population benchmark, a measure that would make it all but impossible to show that facially race-neutral admis

Each year, Cornell's University Relations division recognizes one or more graduating seniors who has shown exceptional leadership, innovation and engagement with and service to the greater Ithaca community during their time at Cornell.

At first glance, identical twins Adriana and Alyssa Lyons look like Barbie dolls come to life, with sun-kissed tans, bright blue eyes, blond hair and matching smiles. But behind the picture perfect symmetry lies something even more remarkable: relentless discipline.

The Cork students from across the county brought home awards from all three categories at the national finals in Mullingar, on May 7. Teams from the Patrician Academy in Mallow took home the second prize in the Senior Category as well as the Sales and Marketing prize in the Intermediate Category. Students Rory O'Leary, Bill Palmer, Conor O'Leary and Ben Norton made up the Senior Category runners-up team while Dylan Walsh represented the Mallow school in the Intermediate Category.

Harvard-Westlake's boys' tennis team accomplished something on Friday few have done: topple Irvine University. The Wolverines ended University's four-year run as tennis champions with a 10-8 win at the Southern Section Division 1 championships. University is a 16-time champion.

When I glanced at his screen, equations were nowhere to be seen. He was controlling a monster in the midst of battle, casting magic spells to outduel an opposing player. "That's not your math homework!" I told him. But it was. His fifth-grade-math teacher had told her students to spend time on Prodigy, a site that looks and feels like a video game.

When Rosie Rines graduated from Boston's Roslindale High School in 1964, college didn't seem like an option. But later this month, at 79 years old, she'll don a cap and gown and receive her undergraduate degree from Harvard Extension School - with her daughters cheering her on.

Actually she had the group of students recite together in a joking, know-it-all tone, before diving into her lecture on Ten Things to Know About the Declaration of Independence That Most People Don't Know. The bar association's event comes ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding document and the establishment of the United States of America, which will be commemorated on July 4 of this year. Friday's event featured remarks from two United States District Court for the Southern District of New York judges, Magistrate Judge Katharine Huth Parker and Chief Judge Laura Taylor Swain.

Facing a $7.3 million deficit and less than three weeks after the layoffs of 53 California Academy of Sciences employees, the museum's executive director announced he's resigning at the end of the month. It's unclear whether Scott Sampson, the executive director of the California Academy of Sciences, is resigning due to budget cuts, as the Chronicle reports. CalAcademy Workers United, which represents 37 of the 53 laid-off employees, had been using its recent Cut From the Top campaign to urge the museum to reduce its executives' salaries rather than eliminate essential staff members.

The 2025-26 high school sports season has required Armando Fernandez to multitask at an extraordinary level. He has served as head coach at Sotomayor for boys' basketball and volleyball, and is interim head coach for baseball. He also was head coach for Franklin's flag football team. Each team has won playoff games this season.

A jury has found that the Palo Alto Unified School District is not liable in the lawsuit brought by former robotics teacher Kathy Krier, according to an announcement from the district.

Israel has destroyed schools across southern Lebanon and displaced hundreds of thousands of students. Hundreds of educational institutions have turned into makeshift shelters for thousands of displaced people, causing a compounding series of disruptions to an education system that was already struggling as a result of a debilitating economic crisis.