




The slate of municipal election candidates for school trustee in some boards under provincial supervision is set to be thinner than in the past, as would-be contenders face the prospect of running for a job they may not be able to do.
Education Minister Paul Calandra has taken provincial control of eight school boards, citing largely financial mismanagement.
Several have been under supervision for more than a year but Calandra has not signalled any timeframe for that to end, repeating only that boards will be returned to trustees when their house is in


A high school student carrying two pistols shot to death a fellow student before killing himself Tuesday in an attack in a southern Philippine high school campus that he livestreamed using a body-worn camera, police and other officials said. It was the second fatal school shooting in the country in just two months.