Bianca Vázquez Toness

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  • Children play with building blocks before participating in math activities during the East Providence Boys and Girls Club Summer Camp at Emma G. Whiteknact Elementary School on Thursday, July 10, 2025, in Providence R.I. (AP Photo/Sophie Park)Politics

    America’s 926 Boys & Girls Clubs on edge as Trump sits on funding

    By Bianca Vázquez Toness and The Associated Press
  • Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought testifies during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the rescissions package on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)Politics

    Trump administration says some of the $6 billion education grants it withheld were funding ‘a radical leftwing agenda’

    By Bianca Vázquez Toness and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Jaelene, 9, works on a computer during a third grade English language arts class at Mount Vernon Community School, in Alexandria, Va., May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)Politics

    Trump administration withholds $6 billion for school programs to ensure money is ‘spent in accordance with the President’s priorities’

    By Collin Binkley, Bianca Vázquez Toness, and others
  • ICE agents stand outside a house to arrest an immigrantFinance

    ‘Self-deporting’ immigrants are pulling their kids out of school to flee the U.S. Experts say it spells trouble for schools that depend on student enrollments for funding

    By Bianca Vázquez Toness, Neal Morton, and others
  • WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES – DECEMBER 10: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a press conference with newly-elected Democratic Senators Andy Kim (D-NJ) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) in Washington DC, United States on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)Politics

    Recently declassified radio wave technology should be used on drones and operators, Schumer says

    By Bianca Vázquez Toness, Dave Collins, and others
  • school kids meditating in classFeatures

    Millions of kids are skipping school. Could the answer be recess — or giving them cash?

    By Jocelyn Gecker, Bianca Vázquez Toness, and others
  • Some advocates and school systems — and the state of California — are now encouraging kids to come to class even when they have the sniffles or other nuisance illnesses like lice or pinkeye.Health

    Cough? Sore throat? More schools suggest mildly sick kids attend anyway: ‘It’s extremely confusing’

    By Bianca Vázquez Toness and The Associated Press
  • Juan Ballina, Carmen BallinaSuccess

    It’s not just the office people don’t want to go to: COVID looks to have permanently severed something as school attendance plummets and keeps dropping

    By Bianca Vázquez Toness and The Associated Press
  • JuneteenthLifestyle

    Americans adjust to new national holiday Juneteenth in many different ways, from parties to quiet reflection to pondering essential strangeness

    By Bianca Vázquez Toness, Ed White, and others
  • Evena Joseph and Ryan MathurinSuccess

    American schools would rather not tell parents just how badly behind their children are after the pandemic

    By Bianca Vázquez Toness and The Associated Press
  • Kailani Taylor-CribbSuccess

    Nearly a quarter of a million kids are ‘missing’ from American high schools after the pandemic

    By Bianca Vázquez Toness, Sharon Lurye, and others
  • JUNIOR PUPIL AMAZED BY MATHS ON CLASSROOM WHITEBOARDHealth

    The COVID pandemic and its economic effects caused the average student to lose more than half a year of math learning, new analysis shows

    By Bianca Vázquez Toness and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Los Angeles Unified School District students attend online classes at Boys & Girls Club of Hollywood in Los Angeles, Aug. 26, 2020. “It is very easy with hindsight to say, ‘Oh, learning loss, we should have opened.’ People forget how many people died,” said Austin Beutner, former superintendent in Los Angeles, where students were online until the start of hybrid instruction in April 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)Health

    Zoom school set kids back during COVID-19 and now many parents are questioning why they weren’t sent back sooner

    By Bianca Vázquez Toness, Jocelyn Gecker, and others