A longtime telecom CEO called on carrier giants like Verizon and T-Mobile to get behind the growing push on the state and federal level to cut off kids from cell phone use in schools. Peter Adderton – the Australian-born entrepreneur who founded prepaid service Boost Mobile and now helms MobileX […]
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Trouble with playground bullies started for Maria Ishoo’s daughter in elementary school. Girls ganged up, calling her “fat” and “ugly.” Boys tripped and pushed her. The California mother watched her typically bubbly second-grader retreat into her bedroom and spend afternoons curled up in bed. For Valerie Aguirre’s daughter in Hawaii, […]
A mother whose five-year-old son died after suffering an allergic reaction is spearheading a campaign to make schools safer. Helen Blythe, 36, will attend a Parliamentary debate on the topic on Thursday – as her family prepares to mark the second anniversary of Benedict’s death. The youngster was allergic to […]
New Zealand’s new prime minister plans to ban cellphone use in schools and repeal tobacco controls in the agenda for his first three months in office ByNICK PERRY Associated Press November 29, 2023, 1:32 AM New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon leaves his first post-Cabinet press conference at Parliament in […]
A senior Pentagon official who oversaw federally operated school systems in the Americas has been arrested in a Georgia human-trafficking sting. The Coweta County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) last week announced the arrests of 26 people, including Stephen Hovanic, former chief of staff for the Americas division of the Department of Defense Education […]
Scientists today called for vigilance and transparency from China amid reports of a mystery pneumonia outbreak – which has eerie similarities to the early Covid outbreak. Hospitals in Beijing and 500 miles northeast in Liaoning are among those ‘overwhelmed with sick children’ with unusual symptoms that include inflammation in the lungs and […]
Transgender children in England will be able to socially transition at school, subject to conditions to be detailed in guidance issued to schools later this year, according to reports. The guidance is said to take “a presumption against” children transitioning to a different gender at school but is likely to […]
One of two Idaho students who survived the November 2022 massacre at their shared house has now switched universities, her stepmother said, and is wracked with ‘survivor’s guilt’. Dylan Mortensen, 21, told detectives that she saw a man leaving the house in Moscow, Idaho, in the early hours. She did […]