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For more than 100 parents in Regina, the pressure to find money to pay for school supplies can be stressful. It’s thanks to Amanda McCall that burden is taken care of. McCall, a resident in the ...

MONTREAL - Seven-year-old Jayda Watts-Simeon was bouncing up and down with excitement on Tuesday at the chance to be back in school. Wearing a medical mask and carrying a pink backpack covered in imag...

The Education Department announced Monday that it's investigating five Republican-led states with universal mask bans, saying the policies could amount to discrimination against students with disabili...

VICTORIA - A report that found systemic racism in a British Columbia school board and called for a provincewide review is "vindicating," the deputy chief of a First Nation in the province said Saturda...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Florida school districts can legally require their students to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19, a judge ruled Friday, saying Gov. Ron DeSantis overstepped his...

MINNA, Nigeria (AP) - Authorities in northern Nigeria announced three separate groups of kidnapped students were freed within a 24-hour period, prompting speculation late Friday that large ransoms had...

VICTORIA - British Columbia is reintroducing a public health order requiring people to wear masks in all indoor public spaces including malls, grocery stores and on transit starting Wednesday to help ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A ban on school districts requiring masks is forcing parents of vulnerable kids to wrestle with the painful choice of whether to risk coronavirus infections at school or keep the...

NEW YORK (AP) - All New York City public school teachers and other staffers will have to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, officials said Monday as the nation's largest school system prepares fo...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida judge on Thursday refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the order by Gov. Ron DeSantis that parents should decide whether their children wear masks at school ...