Cecelia Stefanelli, a rising freshman at Hershey High School, kicks a ball to score a goal against father, Justin Stefanelli, at a field where U.S. soccer national team star, Christian Pulisic, played when he was in school, in Hershey, Pa., on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)
For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities. Now, they fear those rights could be losing ground under the Trump administration. Most notably, the Department of Justice recently released guidance that lowered the barrier to institutionalizing any person with a disability. Critics argue this undermines decades of progress in integrating disabled people into schools and communities. And last month, the Education Department announced it would offload special education to the Department of Health and Human Services. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called into question the abilities of people with autism, raising concerns about how he would oversee an agency meant to help them learn.
JERUSALEM (AP) — It was the deadliest reported strike in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Most of the victims were children.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's anti-graft court on Tuesday sentenced one of the co-founders of ride-hailing and payments giant Gojek to…
FILE.- This picture, released by the Iranian government's foreign media department and distributed by the AP without changes, shows graves being prepared for the victims, mostly children, of a strike Feb. 28 on a primary school in Minab, Iran, Monday, March 2, 2026. (Iranian Foreign Media Department via AP,File)
FILE.- Rescue workers and residents search through the rubble in the aftermath of a strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News Agency via AP, File)
FILE.- A coffin is carried during the funeral of mostly children killed in a strike Feb. 28 at a primary school in Minab, Iran, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News Agency via AP, File)
FILE.- Coffins holding the bodies of mostly children are prepared for the funeral of those killed in a strike Feb. 28 on a primary school in Minab, Iran, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Amirhossein Khorgooei/ISNA via AP,File)
FILE - A man sits on a bench in a memorial, set for the school children who were killed during a strike on a primary school in southern town of Minab on Feb. 28, in northern Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
Texas public schools will require students to read Bible stories under a reading list approved by the state’s education board. The required reading list approved Friday by the Texas State Board of Education widens conservative efforts to bring more Christian teachings into U.S. classrooms. The push in Texas has been closely followed by education observers, who say the required reading list appears to be the first of its kind in the nation. The mandate required more than 5 million public school students in Texas must read traditional literary works such as E.B. White’s “Charlotte’s Web.” Also on the list are Bible stories, including passages from the New Testament and excerpts from the Book of Job.
