Bianca Vázquez Toness

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)

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)

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)

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 immigrant

‘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)

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 class

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.

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 Ballina

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

Juneteenth

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 Mathurin

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-Cribb

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 WHITEBOARD

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)

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