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Abbott Elementary season 3 reunites award-winning actors Quinta Brunson, Tyler James Williams and Sheryl Lee Ralph. Here’s everything we know about it.

It’s like The Office meets Parks and Rec, but wholesome and set in a (chronically underfunded and mismanaged) public school: Abbott Elementary has proved a hit with audiences, critics, awards voters — and teachers.

Veteran actor Sheryl Lee Ralph, an ageless stalwart of the industry who won an Emmy as a first-time nominee at the age of 66, relished in her victory by singing powerful lyrics about being an “Endangered Species.”

Ralph won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Barbara Howard on ‘Abbott Elementary’

If you ask Sheryl Lee Ralph about the educators who played a pivotal role in her life, she'll begin listing them without hesitation: her dad, her mom, her auntie Carolyn and so on. Then she'll get to her kindergarten teacher, Miss Spencer. Her eyes light up as she disappears into…

“Abbott Elementary” has earned top marks with Emmy voters.

This hilarious mockumentary set in a US school is full of astonishingly rapid-fire jokes, immaculate timing and note-perfect acting. It’s absolutely charming

Viewers and critics alike are drawn to the ABC sitcom with an earnest tone that works as a soothing antidote amid real-world conflict.

PHILADELPHIA — It was 20 years ago, Sheryl Lee Ralph recalled, when State Sen. Vincent Hughes gave the actor a gift in a not-quite robin's-egg blue box with a white bow that began their love story.