The Cromwell-Wright – It Takes a Village is asking for donations for the Best Christmas Ever. Drop off unwrapped gifts or cash donations at the school by Dec. 19.

The red-blue divide on how to teach, what to teach and what school systems should look like is growing. Diametrically opposed approaches to race and gender in the classroom, school choice and other ...

Students with a newly-formed campus group hosted a teach-in on Nov. 20 to discuss the constitutionality of Ten Commandments posters going up across campus. The teach-in, which is an extended meeting ...

A granite Ten Commandments monument stands on the grounds of the Texas Capitol in Austin. A group of Texas families filed a class action lawsuit to stop all school districts in the state from ...

After receiving two favorable rulings from judges, a coalition of advocacy groups filed their third lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new state law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Follow Polly Thompson Every time Polly publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to your inbox!

The local sheriff characterized it as a particularly callous and brutal crime: People went to a child's birthday party Saturday night and opened fire, killing victims ages 8, 9, 14 and 21. "These ...

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) memo has reported that the COVID-19 vaccine contributed to the deaths of at least 10 children. Following the release of the Friday memo, which was obtained by ...

The federal agency has not publicized how it reached its conclusions. The top vaccine chief at the Food and Drug Administration sent out a memo saying the FDA will seek a stricter review and approval ...

A child’s birthday party – a usually joyous event – turned into the site of a mass shooting Saturday night that left three children and one other person dead and 11 wounded, with the suspected shooter ...

The director of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine division told agency staff in a memo that an internal review found that at least 10 children died “after and because of receiving” the Covid ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...