PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) 鈥� Teachers in Portland, Oregon, walked off the job on Wednesday for the first day of a strike that shuttered schools for some 45,000 students in Oregon's largest city.Concerns over large class sizes, salaries that haven't kept up with inflation and a lack of resources ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� A fight at a Los Angeles high school left two students stabbed Wednesday and three others detained by law enforcement in connection with the melee, officials said.The stabbings were reported shortly before 11 a.m. and prompted a lockdown at Van Nuys High School in the ...
It's the kind of problem nonprofit leaders dream about: What do you do when you get an unexpectedly large donation?Summer Science Program, a nonprofit with an annual budget of about $2 million, sent about 200 high school juniors to six-week intensive research courses at universities this year. ...
ATLANTA (AP) 鈥� Three former Georgia Tech researchers have been sentenced for their roles in a scheme to defraud the university and the Central Intelligence Agency, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.James G. Maloney, former chief scientist for the Georgia Tech Research Institute, and ...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) 鈥� Students in Kentucky showed some improvement on their statewide test scores, especially in elementary schools, but considerable work remains to get back to pre-pandemic levels, state education officials said. The subject has become a top issue in this year's hotly ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) 鈥� Louisiana State University and Tulane University are receiving a $22 million award from the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to lead a consortium seeking ways to save the ecologically fragile Lower Mississippi River Delta, the schools announced ...
