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A father in South Dakota shared a heartwarming photo of his 6th-grade daughter getting help from her math teacher, Chris Waba. In the snapshot, the middle schooler could be seen holding up a possible notebook, while Waba drew math equations on a whiteboard outside.

Is stealing a presidential portrait a prison-worthy crime? Or a laudable act of civil disobedience? Courts around France are grappling with this question in response to an unusual new environmental movement that’s aiming to push French President Emmanuel Macron to do more to fight climate change. One by one, environmental activists around France have removed Macron’s official portraits from more...

“Grab the baby!” Those were the last words Tia Coleman recalls her sister-in-law yelling before the tourist boat they were on sank into a Missouri lake, killing 17 people, including nine of Coleman’s family members. A huge wave hit, scattering passengers on the vessel known as a duck boat into Table Rock Lake near Branson, Coleman said. When the Indianapolis...

More than half of the 17 people killed when a tourist boat sank on a Branson lake were members of the same Indiana family, and they likely would not have been on the ill-fated trip but for a ticket mix-up. Tracy Beck, of Kansas City, Missouri, said she recalled the family members waiting in line. After they stopped for a...

A Mountain View High School teacher was arrested Tuesday morning after school officials found out he had allegedly been sending inappropriate texts to a student, police said.

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A new bill is aimed at tackling California’s teacher shortage.

UPDATE: All charges against Youssef Taleb, a former Northern Virginia Community College math teacher, have been dismissed. Taleb tells News4 that he’s hoping to return to teaching. “I love teaching,” he said. “I don’t think I’m going to give up on teaching ever.”

The Santa Clara County DA’s Office is looking into claims that former San Jose High principal Cary Catching stole money intended for students. The move was prompted by an NBC Bay Area investigation that uncovered allegations against Catching by parents and teachers.

The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit exposes that a former San Jose High School principal opened an unauthorized bank account tied to the school’s PTSA, and an audit found she made thousands of dollars in purchases without receipts or an explanation. Parents, teachers and staff say the account served as the principal’s private slush fund and suspect that she may...