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Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang recalls hamming it up in high school and reaping rewards for his gregarious ways. During an interview with Terry Gross, the host of NPR‘s Fresh Air noted that Yang had been named homecoming king. “So I figure either it was a very gay-friendly school or you were very successful at staying in the closet,” …

Tyler Sorenson was fed up with his job hunt, so he went old school: He dropped off a paper résumé at a local tech repair company. Sorenson, 24, had been feeling a common frustration among job seekers. He was seeing “help wanted” signs and hearing about understaffed businesses, but he couldn’t get replies to his online job applications. The store …

A former Michigan State grad student blamed her thyroid cancer on the school, which allegedly told her that “exposure was harmless” when she worked with various pesticides and herbicides, she and her lawyers said on Monday. LingLong Wei was diagnosed with thyroid cancer on June 26 last year in a health downturn that’s “directly related to events that took place …

The countdown to the return to school is on for many major Triangle-area traditional school systems, including Wake County and Durham County. Pediatricians say now is a critical time for parents to make plans to bring their children to see their family doctor for vaccinations. The North Carolina Department of Human Services Kindergarten Immunization Dashboard reports 93% of kindergarteners statewide …

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Donate today to help sharpen the Tribune’s education reporting on policy, funding and outcomes because what happens in Texas schools affects all of us. New scores on the state’s standardized test released on Friday show a slight improvement in both …

A new wave of book bans has hit Florida school districts, with hundreds of titles being pulled from library and classroom shelves as the school year kicks off. The Republican-dominated state, which has already had the highest rate of book bans nationwide this year, is continuing to censor reading materials in schools, bowing to external pressures in an effort to …

A California high school girls’ volleyball team forfeited a match against a team that is believed to include a biological male trans athlete Friday night.  Riverside Poly High School in Riverside County, California, announced its forfeit against Jurupa Valley High School in a statement.  “Riverside Poly High School’s girls volleyball team will not take the court for tonight’s scheduled game against Jurupa Valley High …

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A record five Texas school districts are now at risk of the state replacing their democratically-elected school board …

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas released two years of grades for school districts on Friday, closing a lengthy legal battle over the …

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday struck down two Trump administration actions aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the nation’s schools and universities. In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher in Maryland found that the Education Department violated the law when it threatened to cut federal funding from educational institutions that continued with DEI initiatives. The …