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Kansas City Public Schools will become an all-Apple district, planning to replace more than 30,000 Windows PCs and Chromebooks with Apple devices over time, including 4,500+ MacBook Neos for students in 8th grade and up; younger students will use iPads and MacBook Airs. The Neo is priced at $499 for education, signaling Apple’s growing push into education and raising competitive tension with Microsoft in student devices.
Militant attacks on Nigerian schools have left more than 80 children missing, officials say, with abductions traced to late April; some abductees have been released, but dozens remain unaccounted for as violence disrupts education.
Instructure, which runs Canvas, says it has reached a deal with hackers who breached its systems, stole data from almost 9,000 schools and about 275 million people, and threatened to release it unless paid; the company did not disclose whether a ransom was paid but confirmed the stolen data has been returned and that exploited free-teacher accounts have been disabled, with steps ongoing to bolster security.
For the first time in 13 years, a leading pediatricians group issued guidance on recess, saying daily playtime is essential for kids' health and academic success and urging schools to protect time for recess across all ages.
A heavy, wet spring snowstorm forced widespread school closures across Colorado on Wednesday, with Denver Public Schools and Aurora Public Schools canceling classes and several other districts announcing two-hour delays as the storm blankets the state and affects travel.
A 14-year-old Palestinian student, Aws al-Naasan, was killed outside Mughayyir’s boys’ school by an Israeli reservist amid a wave of settler violence in the occupied West Bank that has targeted schools; the killings come as settlers raze a nearby village school and block access to education, with UN agencies warning of a broader pattern of attacks and displacement, while the Israeli military says the shooter acted after stones were thrown and troops were not present.
Renown Children’s Hospital pediatricians warn of a rise in gastrointestinal illness among children in several Reno-area schools, mostly viral and typically short-lived. Most kids recover with rest and hydration, but families should contact a pediatrician if dehydration or persistent symptoms occur. The outbreaks affect five WCSD elementary schools—Libby Booth, Rita Cannan, Caughlin Ranch, Natchez, and Jerry Whitehead—with heightened sanitation and Connect Ed communications; there is also a high-infection classroom at Echo Loder Elementary.
California health officials confirmed tuberculosis exposure at Justin Garza High School with one active infection and 22 of 169 exposed testing positive but asymptomatic; a possible exposure was also reported at Sunset Elementary in San Ysidro. No students or staff are currently contagious on campus, and investigators are conducting contact tracing and free screenings. San Diego County TB cases have risen from 193 in 2020 to 265 in 2025, highlighting a rising trend in the state.
The Supreme Court declined to hear a Florida couple’s challenge to a school district’s procedures on a student’s gender identity, leaving in place an 11th Circuit ruling that the district infringed parental rights but did not meet the substantive due–process standard, thereby preserving a narrow ruling and avoiding a broader national debate over parents’ rights versus student privacy in schools.
Several DC-area school districts will dismiss early or switch to virtual learning on Monday as a weather system could bring heavy rain, damaging winds and possibly tornadoes.
Washington Post reporting shows an Iranian elementary school that was hit in a U.S.-Israeli campaign was on a U.S. target list and may have been mistaken for a military site, with at least 175 people killed, many of them children, raising questions about the role of AI in target identification.
Iranian state media says missiles fired by the United States and Israel hit two schools in Parand, near Tehran, damaging a classroom and nearby homes, six days after what Iran calls a US-Israeli attack on a girls’ school in Minab that killed 165 people. The US says it was unaware a school had been hit, while some Israeli sources hint the Minab site may have been linked to an IRGC base; Tehran cites a Red Crescent figure showing thousands of civilian sites damaged in what it attributes to US-Israeli strikes as the conflict widens.
U.S. officials say they are still investigating whether a U.S. airstrike hit the girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, on the war’s opening day; the strike killed at least 175 people, many of them children, with attribution unclear, while UNESCO condemns the attack as a grave violation of protections for schools and Washington emphasizes it does not target civilians.
A missile struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, during morning classes, killing up to 168 people and injuring dozens in what UNESCO calls a grave violation of international law; the attack, linked to the US-Israel-led campaign, occurred near an IRGC complex though the school itself appeared non-military, with verified footage and satellite imagery supporting the incident, while toll figures vary and authorities reported school closures as the conflict widened.
Massachusetts schools will remain closed on Wednesday as the region continues cleanup from a blizzard that battered New England, with authorities assessing damage and ongoing recovery efforts.