A car passes the Meta logo on a sign at the company headquarters on Oct. 28, 2021, in Menlo Park, Calif. Meta and its social media platform Facebook were ordered to pay more than $500 million to address mental health concerns for children who used the network.
Children play during aftercare for the Head Start program at Easterseals South Florida in Miami on Jan. 29, 2025. The Trump administration is preparing an overhaul of Head Start that would replace its 100 pages of regulations with about a dozen and leave many specifics on program operations up to state and local laws.
A crowd protesting legislation to significantly curb collective bargaining in Wisconsin fills the state Capitol rotunda on the fifth day of labor demonstrations on Feb. 16, 2011, in Madison, Wis. The proposal passed and has been in place for 15 years, and a lawsuit seeking to end it is now headed to the state's high court.
Founder Matt McMullen turns on a robot at a workshop for Realbotix, a company that makes lifelike AI-driven robots, in Las Vegas, on Jan. 17, 2024. A rural New York school district that was set to deploy an AI-powered, humanoid robot developed by the company has hit pause on those plans.
Jared Charles, a community engagement worker with the South Carolina Department of Public Health, walks outside a mobile clinic in Inman, S.C, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. The number of measles cases in the U<ins data-user-label="Matt Stone" data-time="07/24/2026 5:04:13 PM" data-user-id="00000185-c5a3-d6ff-a38d-d7a32f6d0001" data-target-id="">nited States</ins> this year so far has already surpassed the record-breaking tally for all of 2025.
Chief Leschi Schools senior Gerald Dillon, 18, gets a hug from a 2nd grade student as he serves as a teaching assistant through the school's career and technical education program, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at Chief Leschi Schools in Puyallup, Wash. Over the past decade, graduation rates have risen at Bureau of Indian Education Schools.
Parker Tirrell, third from left, and Iris Turmelle, sixth from left, pose with their families and attorneys in Concord, N.H., Aug. 19, 2024. The teens initially sued over New Hampshire's law banning transgender girls from school sports teams, and later expanded their lawsuit to challenge President Donald Trump's February 2025 executive order threatening to withhold federal funds from schools that allow transgender girls to join girls' sports teams. They've since withdrawn the legal challenge following a Supreme Court ruling allowing states to ban transgender girls from sports under Title IX.
A vial of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is on display at the Lubbock Health Department on Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. A new study examined the degree to which school absences surged during a measles outbreak earlier this year in West Texas.
President Joe Biden speaks at a news conference July 11, 2024, on the final day of the NATO summit in Washington. He announced Sunday that he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement for the Democratic nomination.
Former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents after being struck by gunfire at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. The day after the attempted assasination of the Republican nominee for president, Trump arrived in Milwaukee ahead of the start of the Republican National Convention and President Joe Biden gave a prime-time address, saying "politics must never be a literal battlefied. God forbid, a killing field."
Ms. Kaiser, a teacher from The Earth School, holds a sign in solidarity with other teachers who are speaking out on issues related to a lack of COVID-19 testing for students on Dec. 21 in New York.
