Category: school

California State Senate Passes Bill Removing Requirement for Schools to Notify Threats to Police

The California State Senate has passed a bill that ends a mandatory requirement for law enforcement officials to be notified if students threaten any violent behavior. Before the bill, SB 1273, was passed, existing law stated that whenever any school official is “attacked, assaulted, or physically threatened by any pupil—the employee and any person under whose direction…


4 Shot Dead in Oklahoma Hospital; Texas Governor Orders Random School Inspections | NTD

Texas governor Greg Abbott ordering random school inspections, to make sure schools are prepared to respond to school shootings, as Uvalde says goodbye to more victims of last week’s attack. Iowa, Mississippi, and South Dakota are among seven states holding primary elections on June 7th. Find out who’s favored to win among senate and gubernatorial…


Trump Calls on Congress to Fund Safe Schools Before Sending Billions to Ukraine

Former President Donald Trump said on Friday that Congress should prioritize funding for school security over military aid to Ukraine, with his remarks coming in the context of the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, in which a gunman shot 21 people to death. Trump began his speech at the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual convention in Houston…


Teacher Propped Open Door to Texas School Before Shooter Entered: Official

Panicked children and teachers placed half a dozen calls to 911 emergency services from the Texas classrooms where a massacre was unfolding, according to an official on Friday, who also said that a teacher propped open a door minutes before the shooter entered. At least two children called the 911 emergency number from the two…


Texas Mass Shooter Appears to Have Walked Into School Unobstructed: Official

A Texas Department of Public Security official said the 18-year-old suspected gunman who killed 21 at a school on Tuesday appeared to have walked unobstructed into the building before the incident unfolded. Victor Escalon, the South Texas Regional Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told reporters Thursday that the door at Robb Elementary…


School Closings and Violent Youth: A Potential Link

Commentary Our greatest fears have now seemed to materialize. The school closures, social dislocation, the two years of isolation, the lockdown psychosis, plus dehumanizing masking and the resulting anxiety, depression, and despair, may have unleashed and may have enhanced depraved and murderous behavior. Two major incidents have been in the news but the trend is…


Border Patrol Officer Killed Texas School Shooter: Governor

A Border Patrol officer killed the Uvalde elementary school shooter on Tuesday, said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott at a news conference. “Officers with the Consolidated Independent School District (ISD) approached the gunman and engaged with the gunman,” the Republican governor said. “The gunman then entered a back door and then went down two short hallways…


Better School Lunches Blunt U.S. Kids’ Weight Gain

America’s kids have a weight problem, but regulations that boosted the nutritional standards for school meals may have helped slowed down weight gain among low-income students, a new study finds. For decades, the National School Lunch Program has provided free or low-cost meals to U.S. schoolchildren. As of 2016, more than 30 million students nationwide were participating,…


LGBT Books Donated to Bay Area School Libraries Amid Criticism

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—A nonprofit is donating LGBT books to California school libraries, with the goal of making such content more accessible to youth. But some teachers and parents are speaking out against it. On May 17, the nonprofit Gender Nation celebrated the donation program at the West Contra Costa Unified School District with supporters and…


US Government Admits It Used Schools as Tool to Erase Culture, Seize Native American Land: Report

Erasing culture, pulling children away from their parents, and disregarding the emotional needs of children. These tactics could be pulled from today’s headlines, but they are the tried-and-true education policies the United States has admitted to using for 150 years as a tool to force the assimilation of Native Americans, and specifically to acquire Indian…