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WASHINGTON (AP) — Head Start preschools serving thousands of children around the country could be at risk of closing because they remain locked out of their federal funding, a problem [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump https://apnews.com/live/trump-presidency-updates-day-9 and loans in a far-reaching directive, early childhood education centers and states discovered Tuesday they could no longer access money they rely [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to introduce more https://apnews.com/article/texas-schools-religion-38ae3d9d481a736d274dd4580b3bf8a0, testing the separation of church and state by inserting Bible references into reading lessons and requiring [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Never before in a presidential election cycle has there been so much discussion of the https://apnews.com/article/election-child-care-tax-credit-paid-leave-bb0283c684f33470a1df1f37fa3f4231 — a tool many Democrats and Republicans have endorsed as a [...]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President https://apnews.com/hub/joe-biden on Tuesday said Kamala Harris would “cut her own path” once she wins the 2024 election, allowing for more daylight between him and his vice [...]

ANNANDALE, Va. (AP) — As lawmakers voted on a https://apnews.com/article/congress-spending-bill-speaker-johnson-shutdown-7917f589502c40d4815f1b9583d3fa23 at the U.S. Capitol, a different kind of balloting was taking place a dozen miles away in a sun-filled Virginia [...]

Asked recently how he would bring down the high cost of child care, former President Donald Trump said doing so would be relatively “not very expensive” — at least, not [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz touted Vice President Kamala Harris' record of defending LGBTQ+ rights on Saturday night, pledging to a supportive crowd that she will advance their [...]

Preschool options are growing with the expansion of early learning programs, giving families in some parts of the U.S. a dizzying array of choices. Some states, like Colorado and New [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The high cost of caring for children and the elderly has forced https://apnews.com/article/daycare-child-care-college-degree-moms-ac72f1227844eae0281305835e07273b, devastated family finances and left professional caretakers in https://apnews.com/article/head-start-preschool-child-care-teacher-pay-256a66cc4df8a331a2d0badcba7f72e8 — all while slowing economic [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is hiking https://apnews.com/article/head-start-preschool-child-care-teacher-pay-256a66cc4df8a331a2d0badcba7f72e8 in the early childhood program Head Start as part of an effort to retain current employees and attract new ones in [...]

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — She was a teenager, and the mother of a 2-year-old, when a knock came on the door of the trailer she called home. Two women were [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Map all doors in the home and figure out how to escape. Make a list of items in each room that you can use to defend [...]

A tiny contingent of Duke University graduates opposed pro-Israel comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking at their commencement in North Carolina Sunday, with about 30 of the 7,000 students leaving their seats [...]

A tiny contingent of Duke University graduates opposed pro-Israel comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking at their commencement in North Carolina Sunday, with about 30 of the 7,000 students leaving their seats [...]

Byline: Sabby Robinson, Hannah Natanson and Moriah Balingit RICHMOND - On a cold day last January, 17-year-old Tristan Bailey walked into history class to find a woman he didn't know [...]

Like a lot of mothers, North Dakota state Rep. Emily O'Brien struggled to find infant care when her daughter Lennon was born in 2019. So O'Brien, a Republican who represents [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit A state board in Oklahoma on Monday approved a contract with St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Charter School, bringing the institution one step closer to becoming the [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit Gov. Mike DeWine (R) and Ohio's elected education board members are battling over who is in charge of the state's Education Department - and whether that department [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — American higher education has long viewed plagiarism as a cardinal sin. Accusations of academic dishonesty have ruined the careers of faculty and undergraduates alike. The latest target [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein, Marianna Sotomayor and Moriah Balingit WASHINGTON - Cutting housing subsidies for the poor by 33 percent as soaring rents drive a national affordability crisis. Forcing more than [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein, Marianna Sotomayor and Moriah Balingit Cutting housing subsidies for the poor by 33 percent as soaring rents drive a national affordability crisis. Forcing more than 1 million [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit - - - Correction: A previous version of this article misstated the county where Sarah Zhang grew up. It is Pennsylvania's Bucks County, not Berks. The article [...]

Byline: Rachel Weiner and Moriah Balingit The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the case of a North Carolina charter school that wanted to force female students to wear [...]

Byline: Martin Weil, Hannah Natanson, Moriah Balingit and Sabby Robinson Two people were killed and several people were injured in a shooting near a park following a high school graduation [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper warned that GOP-backed proposals to expand a tuition voucher program could devastate the state's public schools by steering public school students [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit and Donna St. George The Biden administration on Friday directed the nation's public schools to comply with civil rights laws in their use of out-of-school suspensions, expulsions [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit Lina Horton was a freshman at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with plans to become her family's first college graduate, an enormous achievement for a young woman [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit and Meaghan Tobin BRASÈìLIA - In his first months in office, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has declined to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, [...]

Byline: Terrence McCoy and Moriah Balingit RIO DE JANEIRO - Former president Jair Bolsonaro left the United States Wednesday night on a flight home to Brazil, a country deeply divided [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit Isidore of Seville was a sixth century theologian who wrote one of the world's first encyclopedias, which led modern-day Catholics to unofficially adopt him as the patron [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit A state court judge ruled Tuesday that some of Pennsylvania's schools are so underfunded that they violate students' constitutional right to an education, a ruling that could [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit and Gregory S. Schneider It was a real-life word problem gone awry. School districts across Virginia will receive about $202 million less than they anticipated for the [...]

Byline: Jim Morrison and Moriah Balingit NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Richneck Elementary reopened Monday, three weeks after police say a 6-year-old at the school did the unthinkable, carrying a gun [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit ROSEDALE, Miss. - It's near the end of the day at West Bolivar High School, and Jordan Mosley is stuck. The 15-year-old sophomore stares at her laptop [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit The shooting of a first-grade teacher in Newport News, Va., allegedly by her 6-year-old student, sent shock waves through schools across the country, rattling elementary school principals [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit WASHINGTON - Nearly half of the nation's schools were still struggling to fill a teacher vacancy in October, according to data released Tuesday by the Education Department, [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit OAKLAND, Calif. - If all had gone as planned, thousands of high-schoolers in Oakland would have cast their ballots for the first time on Election Day. Many [...]

Byline: Kathy Gilsinan, Moriah Balingit, Brittany Shammas, Ben Brasch and Praveena Somasundaram CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the gunman had been transported with eight others [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit and Brittany Shammas CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the gunman had been transported with eight others to a hospital after the shooting. [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit ESTERO, Fla. Here are some of the things kids lost when Hurricane Ian came ashore: A Mickey Mouse plush toy that had been named 'Baby.' Miniature hangers [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit When students returned to class this year, a growing number of them were greeted by adults with no teacher training and, in some cases, no more than [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit LOUISVILLE, Ky. - When 13-year-old Fischer Wells signed up for field hockey last fall, she had never played the sport. Her parents were confounded. Fischer had run [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit and Laura Reiley The nation's first experiment in feeding every public school student free of charge, launched to arrest a burgeoning child hunger crisis in 2020, will [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit UTOPIA, Texas - Three months before a teenager opened fire on fourth-graders in Uvalde, school administrators in Utopia, a 45-minute drive north, called a lockdown. A man [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit and Nick Anderson WASHINGTON - On the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the Biden administration proposed sweeping changes to the landmark law that would bar schools, colleges [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit and Nick Anderson WASHINGTON - On the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the Biden administration proposed sweeping changes to the landmark law that would bar schools, colleges [...]

Byline: Moriah Balingit The case of Carson v. Makin, in which the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, concerns an unusual school voucher program with about 5,000 students in parts of Maine [...]