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Bruhat Soma spelled 29 out of 30 words correctly in Scripps’ second-ever spell-off, in which competitors have 90 seconds to spell as many words given to them as possible.
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Benjamin Evans was among 45 spellers from the original field of 245, the largest since 2019, to advance to the semifinals when he correctly answered his fifth-round multiple-choice vocabulary question earlier Wednesday.
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The San Diego Unified School District kicked off major campus work Tuesday at 62-year-old Holmes Elementary School, part of a district-wide push for site modernizations.
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New legislation announced Wednesday in Sacramento would prevent school districts across the state from telling parents their students identify as LGBTQ+ to avoid what supporters of the legislation describe as “forced outing.”
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Too few trees at California’s schools mean there’s little protecting students from a warming planet. Here’s how advocates say the state can pay for more shade.
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Graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz walked off their jobs and went on strike Monday.
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Higher education officials in Ohio are reviewing race-based scholarships after last year's Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.
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Since the pandemic, chronic absenteeism in the nation's K-12 schools has skyrocketed. These teens are working to get their attendance back on track.
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At the height of the racial reckoning, a school district in Virginia voted to rename two schools that had been previously named for Confederate generals. This month, that decision was reversed.
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Ian Roberts has competed in some of the most high-profile races in the world. But his biggest competition to date was a determined fifth-grader in jean shorts and Nike tennis shoes.
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