SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco teachers have reached a tentative agreement with the school district to end their strike, the first such walkout in nearly 50 years. San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Maria Su said schools will reopen to staff Friday and to students Wednesday after two holidays. District officials planned a news conference…
HOUSTON — A Texas A&M University professor who was fired last year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender identity sued the school on Wednesday, alleging the university violated her rights by bowing to political pressure calling for her ouster. Melissa McCoul was…
MADRID (AP) — Spain plans to ban social media access for children under 16, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Tuesday, in a move designed to shield young people from the harms of online content. The progressive Spanish leader spoke at a summit in the United Arab Emirates, where he chided the world’s biggest tech…
NEW YORK — Columbia University has named Jennifer Mnookin, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as its next president as it tries to move forward from two years of turmoil that included campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war and President Donald Trump’s subsequent campaign to squelch student activism and force changes at the Ivy…