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The plan announced by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack also seeks to decrease sodium in the meals served to schoolkids by 2029, while making the rules for foods made with whole grains more flexible.

When service members move from base to base, they sometimes find it takes too long for their child's new school to begin providing special education services.

The scale of the disruption is evident in a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively with AP. It found the average student lost half a school year in math and more than a quarter of a year in reading.

Besides children being injured in the actual event, physical symptoms may manifest as an increase of headaches or stomachaches. But for mental health, the hallmark symptom is post-traumatic stress.

Every state saw scores decline in the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. It's considered the first nationally representative study of the pandemic’s impact on learning.

A CDC committee voted that the agency should update its recommended immunization schedules to add the COVID vaccine, including to the schedule for children. However, that doesn't mandate the vaccine for schoolchildren.

As the harmful effects of extended pandemic school closures become more apparent, some educators and parents are questioning decisions by districts to remain online long after evidence emerged that schools weren’t superspreaders.

The response comes after learning about a form the association requires students fill out before playing sports. It includes questions about genitalia and menstrual cycles. There is concern health privacy could be violated.

The Palm Beach Post’s Katherine Kokal outlined how the move has worried some about how the private health data is stored and protected. In this interview, she discusses the issue.

The data seems to show more high school students vaping, with 14% saying they had done so recently, At least one educator says vaping in campus bathrooms and stairwells remains "a constant battle."