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Faith, left, with some of her fellow pupils Julia, Nana, Yaw, Alexandra, Leandra, and Amariah, right play on a rope swing at the Holy Family Catholic Primary School during a break, in Greenwich, London, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. Holy Family, like schools across Britain, is racing to offset the disruption caused by COVID-19, which has hit kids from low-income and ethnic minority families hardest. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
London school fights COVID fallout with laptops, bean bags

By Danica Kirka Jun. 01, 2021 02:23 AM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020 file photo students of the Robert-Koch vocational college get advise by their teacher, wearing face masks in the classroom, during computer science lessons in Dortmund, Germany. The German government on Wednesday agreed on a strategy to boost the use of data for commercial purposes and signed a deal with state education authorities to fund laptops for teachers who have to work from home because of the virus lockdown. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, file)
Pushed by pandemic, Germany seeks to boost technology use

By Frank Jordans Jan. 27, 2021 10:39 AM EST

FILE - This Nov. 12, 2020 selfie photo provided by the Renown Regional Medical Center shows Dr. Jacob Keeperman, the Renown Transfer and Operations Center medical director who made the photo on the opening day of the Renown Regional Medical Center's alternative care site located in a parking garage. On Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting this photo at an auxiliary care site for COVID-19 patients proves that the coronavirus pandemic is a hoax. The photo, which shows empty hospital beds, was taken the day the site was opened, and patients had yet to arrive. (Jacob Keeperman/Renown Regional Medical Center via AP)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press Dec. 04, 2020 02:31 PM EST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020 file photo, Nova Blanche Forman Elementary School teacher Attiya Batool, teaches her 4th grade class virtually as her son, Nabeel, does his second grade classwork online wearing a face mask and headphones during the first day of school in Broward, in Davie, Fla. This year, many families are dealing with a first: building their back-to-school shopping plans around distance learning. As the COVID-19 pandemic leads students to take on instruction at home rather than in the classroom, consumers expect to spend more on back-to-school purchases in 2020 than last year. (Emily Michot/Miami Herald via AP, File)
Distance learning can fit into your back-to-school budget

By Lauren Schwahn Of Nerdwallet Aug. 26, 2020 07:38 AM EDT

A handful of Lenovo Chromebook laptops sit in shipping boxes in an empty warehouse used for distribution by Denver Public Schools, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, in Denver. Schools across the United States are facing shortages and long delays in getting this year’s most crucial back-to-school accessories: the laptops and other equipment needed for online learning. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
AP EXCLUSIVE: US faces back-to-school laptop shortage

By Jocelyn Gecker And Michael Liedtke Aug. 22, 2020 11:53 PM EDT

CORRECTS NAME OF SCHOOL DISTRICT TO MORONGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT INSTEAD OF MORONGO COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT - Tom Baumgarten, superintendent of the Morongo Unified School District, right, talks to a family at Twentynine Palms Junior High School, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, in Twentynine Palms, Calif. The district has about 4,000 old laptops that can serve roughly half of the students, Baumgarten said. "This is going to be like asking an artist to paint a picture without paint. You can't have a kid do distance learning without a computer," he said. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
AP EXCLUSIVE: US faces back-to-school laptop shortage

By Jocelyn Gecker And Michael Liedtke Aug. 22, 2020 10:44 PM EDT

A briefcase of a census taker is seen as she knocks on the door of a residence Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, in Winter Park, Fla. A half-million census takers head out en mass this week to knock on the doors of households that haven't yet responded to the 2020 census. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Watchdog chastises Census for missing laptops used for count

By Mike Schneider Aug. 17, 2020 02:45 PM EDT

Officials: School laptops held up ahead of years' start

By Sophia Tulp Aug. 04, 2020 02:03 PM EDT
About 4,000 new laptop computers bound for an Alabama school district were held up over issues with manufacturers, weeks before the school year was set to...