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Oct 29, 2024
After a series of threats that led to a dramatic evacuation and lockdown of Penngrove Elementary earlier this month, parents began raising concerns about Sonoma County’s plans to use the school as one of its voting centers for this year’s election.
Oct 29, 2024
In Jeff Simon’s math class at Sage Creek High School, students are not only allowed but encouraged to use AI. Simon introduces students to artificial intelligence tools that explain, step by step, how to solve a math problem — all they have to do is take a picture of it.
Oct 29, 2024
A federal appeals court ruling could require California to pay for some children to attend religious schools. California pays some private schools to teach students with learning disabilities, but only if those schools are secular, with no religious instruction.
Oct 29, 2024
The California attorney general is investigating a Southern California school district over whether it properly handled claims of educator sexual abuse and misconduct, records reviewed by Business Insider show.
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