School transportation

District keeps kids at home because of lack of bus drivers

May. 12, 2021 04:40 PM EDT
MARSHALL, Mich. (AP) — Students in a southern Michigan school district are learning from home through Friday because of a lack of bus drivers. ...

Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania

By The Associated Press Apr. 28, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
York Daily Record. April 25, 2021. Editorial: Victims have waited long enough, open Pennsylvania’s courtroom doors ...

Vice President Kamala Harris talks with Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., on arrival in Oakland, Calif., Monday, April 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Dems push $25B for electric school buses, a Biden priority

By Hope Yen Apr. 21, 2021 11:53 AM EDT

Mobile COVID-19 vaccination unit gets rolling in rural Maine

By Patrick Whittle Apr. 12, 2021 09:45 AM EDT
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine deployed its mobile vaccination unit on Monday as part of an effort to get COVID-19 shots to remote corners of the state. ...

All New Mexico schools move to in-person learning this week

By Cedar Attanasio Apr. 05, 2021 02:05 PM EDT

Hoosiers older than 40 eligible for vaccine starting Monday

Mar. 20, 2021 09:53 AM EDT
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana authorities are adding residents between the ages of 40 and 44 to those eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine starting Monday. ...

Indiana teachers now eligible to receive COVID-19 shots

Mar. 15, 2021 02:19 PM EDT
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Teachers and other school employees became eligible Monday for COVID-19 vaccinations through shot clinics across Indiana. ...

Walgreens pharmacist Mindy Keeton, left, pokes the arm of Martha Metts to give the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Monday at the AHEPA apartments in Merrillville, Ind. (Kale Wilk/The Times via AP)

Indiana expanding COVID-19 vaccinations to teachers

By Casey Smith Mar. 10, 2021 03:21 PM EST

FILE - In this July 23, 2020, file photo, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham talks about schools during an update on a COVID-19 broadcast from the state Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M. More school districts in New Mexico can bring students back into classrooms in early February, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. The Democratic governor said she's allowing schools to open their doors to students of all ages, in a major pull-back of restrictions that were based on county-level COVID-19 case rates and hospital capacity. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)

From bus drivers to prom, New Mexico schools work to reopen

By Cedar Attanasio Mar. 10, 2021 01:55 PM EST

Editorial Roundup: North Carolina

By The Associated Press Feb. 24, 2021 07:50 AM EST
Recent editorials from North Carolina newspapers: ___ Feb. 23 The Salisbury Post on the coronavirus...

Tens of thousands rally in support of Nepal's embattled PM

Feb. 05, 2021 05:59 AM EST
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s prime minister, facing growing protests against him, gathered his supporters in a rally in the capital on Friday in an attempt...

Editorial Roundup: Georgia

By The Associated Press Feb. 03, 2021 08:15 AM EST
Recent editorials from Georgia newspapers: ___ Jan. 30 The Rome News-Tribune on the removal of...

Gov. Tim Walz, along with Commissioner for the Minnesota Department of Health Jan Malcolm talks with clinical lead Jeanne Schumache who was preparing COVID-19 vaccines to be administered to people with appointments at the Earle Brown Heritage Center, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Walz toured the community vaccination clinic to highlight efforts to vaccinate Minnesotans who are 65 and over Thursday. (Anthony Souffle/Star Tribune via AP)

Virus forces Bloomington schools back to distance learning

Jan. 29, 2021 04:02 PM EST

School bus parade honors driver who died of COVID-19

Dec. 23, 2020 02:44 PM EST
CHEBOYGAN, Mich. (AP) — Nearly two dozen school buses drove past the northern Michigan home of a beloved driver who died from COVID-19. It...

A staff member with the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System receives a shot with the first batch of Pfizer Inc.'s coronavirus vaccine in New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (Max Becherer/The Advocate via AP)

Louisiana superintendent: Prioritize vaccine on school staff

By Melinda Deslatte Dec. 15, 2020 01:25 PM EST

A student carries a math book delivered by school bus driver Kelly Maestas along his rural route outside Cuba, N.M., Oct. 19, 2020. The switch to remote learning in rural New Mexico has left some students profoundly isolated — cut off from others and the grid by sheer distance. The school system is sending school buses to students' far-flung homes to bring them assignments, meals and a little human contact. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

Cut off: School closings leave rural students isolated

By Cedar Attanasio Nov. 23, 2020 01:00 AM EST

FILE- In this Sept. 18, 2015 file photo, a University of Connecticut student pushes a button at a crosswalk outside one of the student dormitories, in Storrs, Conn. On Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, the University of Connecticut announced that it has placed all dormitories at its main campus under quarantine because of rising coronavirus infections. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

With COVID-19 surging, schools suspend in-person education

By Lindsey Tanner Nov. 13, 2020 09:54 AM EST

Hospitals in New Haven, Hartford restrict visitors

By Pat Eaton-Robb And Dave Collins Nov. 10, 2020 12:32 PM EST
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Hospitals in New Haven and Hartford have become the latest in Connecticut to ban routine visits as coronavirus cases rise. ...

Editorial Roundup:

By The Associated Press Oct. 26, 2020 10:00 AM EDT
Des Moines Register. October 25, 2020 What is wrong with Iowa? Virus spread should not be twice the U.S. average. While...