10 h. ago Building at former Welsh boarding school badly damaged in fire

Fire crews from seven different stations are at the scene

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46 h. ago No apology and no answers: parents in agony amid search for children trapped in Indonesia school collapse

Officials say 59 people, mostly young male students, remain trapped in collapsed school in Sidoarjo amid growing questions about the quality of its constructionAs the call to prayer rang out over the boarding school in Indonesia’s East Java on Monday afternoon, the floor beneath more than 100 students gathered in prostration suddenly gave way.So quickly were the four storeys of the Al Khoziny school flattened that one official described it as a “pancake” disaster. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago Iowa district hired superintendent despite false Morgan State doctorate claim on his resume

The superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district, who was detained last week by immigration agents, falsely claimed a doctoral degree when applying for the job two years ago but was hired even after the school board learned about the misrepresentation

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58 h. ago Boarding school 'drugs mule': Brit paraded by Thai police with meth went to Fergie's £70k

George Wilson who was allegedly caught smuggling methamphetamine, from the family of a multimillionaire associated with Iron Maiden.

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3 d. ago Indonesia school collapse: 91 missing and three dead as rescuers search rubble for second day

Desperate search for more than 90 missing after building collapses while students held prayers at school in SidoarjoParents and rescuers in Indonesia were desperately searching for dozens of teenage boys believed to be trapped, a day after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school which has already left three dead, authorities said.Authorities said 91 people were listed as missing after the Al Khoziny school building collapsed while pupils held late afternoon prayers in a mosque housed on a lower floor of a building whose upper floors were under construction. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Activist strips down to a bikini during school board meeting in protest over bathroom policy for trans students

Beth Bourne was removed from the meeting after trying to disrobe for a second time

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3 d. ago Indonesia school collapse: three dead and over 90 missing as rescue effort continues

Instability of building in East Java town hampers search but 99 boys and school staff known to have survivedParents were desperately searching for scores of missing teenage boys feared trapped under huge piles of concrete on Tuesday after a building at an Islamic boarding school collapsed in Indonesia.Authorities said 91 people were listed as missing at Al Khoziny school after the collapse as pupils held late-afternoon prayers in a mosque housed on a lower floor of a building whose upper floors were under construction. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Frantic rescue as school collapses leaving at least one student dead and dozens trapped under the rubble in Indonesia

A SCHOOL packed with students crumbled without warning in Indonesia, leaving dozens trapped and sparking a frantic rescue operation. At least 99 students were injured and one 13-year-old boy has been confirmed dead after the prayer hall at Al Khoziny Islamic Boarding School in Sidoarjo collapsed. Officials say 65 more students - mostly boys aged...

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3 d. ago Mom stuns school board meeting as she STRIPS to protest transgender students using girls' locker rooms

Beth Bourne, the chair of Moms for Liberty in Yolo County, stripped at the Davis Joint Unified School Board meeting on September 18.

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3 d. ago Photos from the collapse of an Islamic school building in Indonesia

A building at an Islamic school in Indonesia collapsed onto praying students, injuring dozens and burying more in the rubble. Rescuers were digging into the unstable debris to find survivors at the Al Khoziny Islamic Boarding School in the East Java town of Sidoarjo.

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3 d. ago Indonesia school collapse: one dead, 65 buried under rubble as rescuers race to find survivors

Death toll expected to rise as instability of building in East Java town hampers rescue efforts At least one student has been killed, dozens injured and 65 presumed buried under rubble after a school building collapsed in Indonesia on Monday, with rescuers running oxygen and water to those who remained trapped more than 12 hours later.Rescue workers, police and soldiers digging through the night pulled out eight weak and injured survivors hours after the building at Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in the East Java town of Sidoarjo collapsed while students were praying. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Islamic school in Indonesia collapses killing at least 1 and injuring dozens more

Officials say a four-story prayer hall in an Islamic boarding school on Indonesia’s main island of Java has collapsed on dozens of pupils who were praying in it, killing at least one male student

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7 d. ago Des Moines, Iowa, public school leader detained by immigration agents, school board says

Federal immigration agents have detained the head administrator of Iowa’s capital city public schools

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7 d. ago Father of Kalamazoo player at center of viral video pleads with school board: ‘Please don’t take my son’s education away’

The boy’s father says his son has become the target of racist abuse on social media after the video was seen by 6 million people

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7 d. ago ‘We were obedient our entire lives’: the nuns who broke back into their convent

Three nuns fled a care home to return to the convent, defying church orders and gaining global support – but their future remains unknownSister Bernadette recalls how she once struggled to wake her pupils at the Goldenstein convent boarding school. “They would plead with me: ‘just five more minutes’ snooze, Berna’”, she chuckled. More than 50 years on, the tables have been turned, with former pupils taking it in turns to wake the three remaining nuns at the convent. “Sister Bernadette in particular likes a lie-in,” said Christina Wirtenberger, one of their carers.Sisters Bernadette, 88, Regina, 86, and Rita, almost 82, are still recovering from the shock of having run away on 4 September from a nearby retirement home where they had been placed – they say against their will – and broken back into their former convent, the imposing Schloss Goldenstein, in Elsbethen, just outside Salzburg. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Prince Harry's team issue statement on Archie's future after UK school rumours

Rumours have been swirling that Prince Harry wants his son, Prince Archie, to attend the same elite boarding school he and his brother Prince William did

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8 d. ago Boarding school manager tells inquest she constantly questioned 'how did we miss this?' after struggling pupil was killed by truck

'Hardworking' teenager Georgia Scarff, 16, had been struggling to cope at £50,000-a-year Royal Hospital School in Holbrook, Suffolk, where she was on a 'watch list'.

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8 d. ago Driver arrested after school coach crashes with 29 children on board

The driver has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving while unfit through drink or drugs

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9 d. ago Girl killed by lorry would 'rather harm herself' than return to boarding school

Georgia Scarff, who suffered anxiety attacks, was killed in April last year.

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9 d. ago Florida board of education signs off on a charter school expansion

Florida’s board of education has signed off on a major expansion of charter schools in the state

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