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MISSION, Kan. (AP) — School board races, once sleepy and localized, have become the new front in a culture war raging across the nation as resentments over COVID-19 restrictions and anti-racism curriculum reach a boiling point. On Tuesday, voters weigh in on dozens of races that have been dominated by debates over masks, vaccines, race and history. The outcomes will decide not just districts' policies but also whether the education fight has staying power as part of the national discourse and becomes a rallying issue for Republicans in the 2022 midterms. Conservatives have eagerly taken up the cause as they...

COL ADDER — U.S. Soldiers here recently delivered supplies to the Ibn Rushed School to further develop Iraqi civil capacity and help educate Iraq's future leaders. One Soldier who participated in the delivery, Staff Sgt. Imelda P. Quiroz, said delivering supplies to the rural area outside of Nasariyah reminded her of humanitarian visits made to her school when she was a child in Mexico. Quiroz, the supply accounting noncommissioned officer with the 36th Sustainment Brigade, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) moved to Arlington, Texas, and joined the Army, but she said the Jan. 13 trip to the Iraqi school brought back...

Sgt. 1st Class Raymond Loriaux, 414th Civil Affairs Battalion, surveys the foundation of a new secondary school being built in Kalour village in Kirkuk province, Nov. 22. Photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Douglas, 1st Cavalry Division. KIRKUK — U.S. Soldiers here are helping the village of Kalour construct a new secondary school to relieve overcrowded conditions through the addition of six classrooms. The new school is being built across from the Kalour Primary School and will have six classrooms, helping to alleviate overcrowding at the primary school.According to Abdul Jabbar Norey Ahmad, the Kalour Primary School principal, the addition of...