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In the hours before he's due at Upper Darby High School, senior Khalid Doulat has time to say prayers, help his mother or prepare for track practice.It's a welcome shift from last year for him and thousands of students at the school, which pushed its start time back by more than two hours from a 7:30 a.m.

College admissions are at an all-time low in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in large part because recent graduates don't think it's worth drowning in debt for.As the Associated Press reports, economists and academics are veritably freaking out at what at first seemed like a pandemic-era trend that's continued past the return of in-person learning - but the graduates themselves make some good points.

PIEDMONT  It was a year of change in the Piedmont Unified School District with Superintendent Randy Booker departing for another job, principals leaving and students returning to school after the pandemic.Otherwise, the city was busy obtaining a contractor to build the new community pool complex, promoting green energy for residents and holding an election for City Council and school board officers.

Faculty, students and parents are pushing back against a recently published article in Gothamist which recounts a drop in math scores at Medgar Evers College Preparatory School in Crown Heights.The article, which also makes note of safety issues and overcrowding concerns, has left the school community confused and upset, claiming it tells an incomplete and inaccurate narrative.

A winter storm is expected to dump freezing rain and snow on the GTA Thursday.Here's a running list of school boards in the region that have cancelled bus service.Up to 10 cm of snow is expected to fall on much of the GTA on Thursday, though some areas could see more.(Chris Young/The Canadian Press) A winter storm is expected to dump freezing rain and snow on the GTA Thursday.

With another possible education workers' strike in Ontario Monday, school boards are once again making plans for how to cope if there's no deal reached with the province.The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) gave a five-day strike notice on Wednesday after bargaining with the province broke down.

Several Ontario school boards said Friday they will move to remote learning next week indefinitely if an education workers' strike continues.Thousands of Canadian Union of Public Employees workers  including education assistants, custodians and librarians  walked off the job earlier in the day and the union's leaders have said the job action will continue "until our members decide otherwise," despite a law banning them from striking and the possibility of fines.

About 55,000 education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will walk off the job Friday to protest against controversial anti-strike legislation from the Ontario government.The province is set to pass legislation Thursday that would impose a contract on education workers and ban them from striking by using what's called the notwithstanding clause, which allows the legislature to override portions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms for a five-year term.

Three of San Jose's largest school districts received a total of more than $155 million in federal funding to tackle COVID-19.Those dollars have served as a lifeline to schools throughout the pandemic and since, but after 2024 that well of money will dry up.The federal funds have been allocated in three rounds throughout Santa Clara County school districts.

In a statement on Thursday, the education workers' central bargaining committee for Canadian Union of Public Employees and Ontario School Board Council of Unions laid out timetable for negotiations, saying it will be known by Sunday at 5 p.m. whether the workers will strike on Monday.(Carlos Osorio/The Canadian Press) Students, parents and staff will know by Sunday at 5 p.m. whether or not Ontario education workers will strike on Monday, the union says.

The Ontario government has withdrawn its application to have a walkout by some 55,000 education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees illegal, the province's labour relations board says.(Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press) Ontario's labour relations board says the provincial government has withdrawn its application to have a walkout by 55,000 education workers declared illegal.

Citing an unusual increase in respiratory illness that has hospital and ER capacity stretched thin, three Massachusetts physician groups are calling on the public for help.Physicians across Massachusetts are seeing a spike in cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), particularly in children, according to a joint statement from Massachusetts Medical Society President Dr. Ted Calianos, Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians President Dr. Emily Chin, and Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics President Dr. Mary Beth Miotto.

After an independent report found an elementary school outside St. Louis had unacceptable levels of radioactive contamination, preliminary results of testing for radioactive materials by the US Army Corps of Engineers showed no presence of radioactive material above the expected range of background levels, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday.

As Silicon Valley teachers stress over the lack of affordable housing and high cost of living, unruly student behavior is now part of the mix.The end result is teacher burnout.Nearly one-third of teachers cite student discipline as the worst part of the job, according to a recent UCLA study.The problem is being attributed to staffing shortages in classrooms and the need for expanded mental health services, advocates said.