students

Licking Heights helps students prepare for life after high school with job fair

U.S.
Amanda Smith

Usually, the auxiliary gym at Licking Heights High School is used for gym classes, large meetings and an athletic event or two. ...

Tennessee lawmakers dismantle HBCU’s board of trustees, to the dismay of students and alumni

Politics
Amanda Smith

Black lawmakers, students and alumni of Tennessee State University are outraged that Gov. Bill Lee, in an unprecedented move, signed into law ...

West Virginia bill letting teachers remove ‘threatening’ students from class heads to governor

Politics
Amanda Smith

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia bill that would provide a framework for public school teachers on removing kindergarten and elementary ...

A decade since the Chibok abduction, more than 1,400 Nigerian students have been kidnapped

World
David Turner

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — What seemed like an aberration a decade ago when militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria’s Chibok community has ...

Pride flags would be largely banned in Tennessee classrooms in bill advanced by GOP lawmakers

Politics
Amanda Smith

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A bill that would largely ban displaying pride flags in public school classrooms was passed by the GOP-led ...

Meeting the needs of the trucking industry

U.S.
Amanda Smith

Feb. 24—Riverland Community College in Albert Lea is helping lessen the gap in the truck-driving industry in the region through its semester-long ...

Nicholas Jordan was roommates with victim

U.S.
Amanda Smith

Why shootings and gun violence are surging across the US Here’s why we’re seeing a sudden rise in gun violence across the ...

Financial aid process slows as students left to wait

U.S.
Amanda Smith

Feb. 16—High school students seeking financial aid for college are in limbo as they wait for the federal government to sort out ...

Many ceremonies, service events held 6 years later

U.S.
Amanda Smith

The 17 people who died in the Parkland shooting six years ago Wednesday were remembered in many ways across South Florida — ...

High school students walk out at Sandburg, Stagg and Reavis to support cease-fire in Gaza

World
David Turner

Hundreds of students walked out of their south suburban high schools Friday afternoon to bring attention to the ongoing violence in the ...