Category Archives: Education
‘Healthy Holly’ mayor moves from prison to local supervision
BALTIMORE (AP) — A former Baltimore mayor serving a three-year sentence for a self-dealing scandal over children's books has left an Alabama federal prison for community confinement in the Baltimore area, the Bureau of Prisons confirmed Wednesday.
Child-care operators, staff call for access to PCR testing, more HEPA filters
TORONTO — Ontario child-care operators and staff are calling on the provincial government to take steps to make daycares safer during the COVID-19 pandemic and to ensure the sector's long-term viability. One immediate step urged by the dozens of operat...
Judge temporarily restores New York’s mask mandate
An appeals judge restored New York’s mask mandate Tuesday, a day after a judge in a lower court ruled that Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration lacked the constitutional authority to order people to wear face coverings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
K-12 students in N.L. are back in school after three weeks of learning from home
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador students in kindergarten through Grade 12 packed their book bags and headed to school Tuesday for the first time since the holiday break began in December. The provincial government announced last week their...
Ford says Ontario close to child-care deal; province is last to strike an agreement
Ontario is close to a child-care deal with the federal government, Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday, as his province remained the only jurisdiction without a deal with Ottawa for $10-a-day child care. Ford told radio station Q104 Kenora that he is
B.C. First Nation finds 93 possible burial sites at former residential school
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — A First Nation in British Columbia says a preliminary geophysical investigation has identified 93 "reflections" that could indicate the number of children buried around the site of a former residential school. Chief Willie Sellars...
EXPLAINER: Supreme Court takes up race in college admissions
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to review a challenge to the consideration of race in college admission decisions, often known as affirmative action. With three new conservative justices on the court since its last review, the
Florida district cancels seminar over race theory concerns
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — School administrators in a central Florida county canceled a seminar for history teachers on the U.S. civil rights movement, in part, because it had not been screened to make sure it was free of critical race
Saskatchewan eschews more COVID-19 rules, Ontario saw high absences in some schools
Saskatchewan's premier said his government will refrain from imposing new COVID-19 restrictions in a shift toward learning to live with the virus Monday, just as new StatCan data illustrated the human toll of the pandemic and Ontario revealed many of
Youngkin faces new lawsuit as Virginia mask order kicks in
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin was facing a new legal challenge over his executive action that aimed to let parents opt out of school mask mandates as his order took effect Monday.