LOS ANGELES — The latest California numbers suggest 2025 will be another record-smashing year for valley fever, the illness linked to drought and precipitation and spread by fungal spores.

There were 6,761 cases reported through the end of July, according to state health officials — a significant increase over the 10-year average of 3,833 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The wildfires in early January disrupted education for more than 725,000 students and destroyed or damaged at least a dozen schools. Several school districts, including Alhambra Unified, Pasadena Unified, San Marino Unified and Glendale Unified, closed within the first few days of the fires. Schools in the central and eastern ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican Michael N. Castle, a fixture in Delaware politics for a half-century who previously served as governor and a member of Congress, died Thursday at age 86.

“During his time as governor, Mike Castle visited every single school in our state, including mine, where he spoke to my high school class with the same warmth, ...Read more

Florida DOGE is aiming to find what it deems as wasteful, unnecessary spending by counties and cities across the state. And new details are surfacing about the scrutiny ahead.

Earlier this summer, municipalities received requests from the state Department of Government Efficiency to provide information on all revenue and expenses. In recent ...Read more

Artificial intelligence is primed to disrupt the workplace, and it’s starting to change the way school is taught in Georgia K-12 classrooms, too.

More schools are turning to AI to craft rubrics, design interactive lessons and overhaul curricula, even amid concerns that the technology could cripple students’ critical thinking skills.

Some ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — There were 10,000 instances of book bans at public schools in the 2023-24 school year, according to PEN America. In 2024, 5,813 titles were challenged in public libraries and schools nationwide, says the American Library Assn.

"So many books for young people are being taken off the shelf," said Fritzi Bodenheimer, spokesperson ...Read more