472 Virginia schools to receive millions in safety equipment and tools grants
Virginia is handing out $12 million worth of grants to 96 school divisions and 472 schools across 96 school divisions in the ...
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Should I Be … Vacuum Sealing the Clothes in My Carry-On?
Rather than an Airback, Martin uses standard vacuum-storage bags and places them in her usual carry-on suitcase. She ...
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Parkland Students Are Trolling Their Mandatory Clear Backpacks By Carrying Things That Scare Conservatives The Most
Among other new regulations, the school staff provided the students with the newest mandatory accessories: a transparent ...
No more event flyers being sent home in kids' book bags
Gone are the days of distributing flyers in Haywood County classrooms. The Haywood County Schools Board of Education has revised its policy on literature distribution, prohibiting materials from ...
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The 18 Best Backpacks for High School Girls and College Women (2024)
A new backpack can be an essential back-to-school purchase and also makes for a wonderful Christmas or birthday gift. What we look for in a backpack First, we looked for sturdy backpacks to hold heavy ...
The Invention That Changed School Forever
Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory ...
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LUS Fiber partners with Love Our Schools to donate backpacks to Alice Boucher Elementary
LUS Fiber and Love Our Schools collaborated to donate 100 backpacks filled with school supplies to Alice Boucher Elementary on Thursday, Oct. 31. The backpack donation is part of Love Our ...
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Florida again tops the nation in school book removals, according to a report
Book removals are increasing across U.S. school libraries — and Florida remains in the lead. With about 4,500 book removals, the state topped the nation for the second year in a row. That's ...
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Murray McCory, 80, Dies; JanSport Founder Created the School Backpack
I struggle to conceive of what a school campus would even look like without backpacks. I still have every JanSport I ever owned, because they hold up so well that I never had the heart to throw ...
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Hanover Public Schools leads state in banned books, report shows
Hanover County Public Schools banned more books from libraries last year than any other school district in the state, the free expression group PEN America reported on Friday. The organization ...
Tallahassee Democrat24d
Report: Ron DeSantis' Florida had the most book bans in the 2023-24 school year
The state had more than 4,500 instances of book banning in public schools during the 2023-24 school year, according to a new report from national free speech group PEN America. That's a ...
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To keep outside violence from spilling into schools, this Louisiana district banned backpacks
They temporarily banned middle and high school students from bringing backpacks to school. The weeklong book-bag ban in Madison Parish followed a recent spate of shootings in Tallulah, the parish ...