Questions continued to swirl on Wednesday around the mass shooting this week at the Covenant School, a Christian elementary school in Nashville, with investigators still trying to determine the motive behind the attack that killed six people. The shooter, identified as Audrey E. Hale, a 28-year-old former student of the school who lived in the…
Like other parents, April Vazquez, a school nutrition specialist in Sioux Falls, S.D., is cutting coupons, buying in bulk and forgoing outings and restaurant meals. Still, a hot lunch in the school cafeteria for her three children is now a treat she has to carefully plan in her budget. The expiration of waivers that guaranteed…
Harvard Medical School will no longer submit data to U.S. News & World Report for the magazine’s annual “best medical schools” rankings, becoming the university’s second graduate school to boycott the list in recent months, the school’s dean said on Tuesday. In a letter, Dr. George Daley, dean of the faculty of medicine, said he…
Richneck Elementary serves more than 550 students; more than half of them are Black and Hispanic, and about a quarter are white. It listed a security officer on its website. Several experts pointed to counseling and mental health support as a better investment for schools, and said officials must also look outside of schools to…
Curtis Bethany, a councilman for the city, said Newport News was dealing with “unchartered” territory. “I’ve never heard of a 6-year-old going to school with a loaded gun.” Incidents at schools involving a shooter so young are exceptionally rare. David Riedman, who founded the K-12 School Shooting Database after the mass shooting at a high…
Some students may also have missed out on important reading instruction early on. In the early to mid-2010s, when high schoolers today were in elementary school, many schools practiced — and still practice — “balanced literacy,” which focuses on fostering a love of books and storytelling. Instruction may include some phonics, but also other strategies,…
Once inside, as he loaded his rifle, he happened across a student. “You better get out of here,” he warned him. “Something bad is about to happen.” Then he began to shoot. His rampage, which lasted just under six minutes, took the lives of 14 students and three faculty members. Killed in the shooting were…
Teachers and other school employees in Ohio will be able to carry firearms into school with a tiny fraction of the training that has been required since last year, after Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill into law on Monday. While employees have for years been allowed to carry guns on school grounds with the…
On Thursday, Ilya Shapiro, a legal scholar, announced his victory in the campus free speech wars: After a suspension and an investigation over a series of tweets, he was cleared to take his new job as a senior lecturer and executive director at Georgetown University’s Center for the Constitution. But the reinstatement was not an…