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Facebook / Flagler County Sheriff’s Office (PALM COAST, Fla.) — Eleven students have been arrested following a massive high school brawl that took place in the middle of the school day. The incident occurred at Matanzas High School in Palm Coast, Florida — some 90 miles north of Orlando — when two school resource officers […]
Stella/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Across the country, a generation of young readers is standing up against efforts to ban or restrict certain books in schools and libraries. Student-led banned book clubs and anti-censorship groups have been popping up in states where a conservative-led movement to remove certain books or lessons has led to boisterous […]
Birmingham Police Department (NEW YORK) — Johnny Mims, a band director at Minor High School in Alabama, is accusing Birmingham police of using excessive force against him after he was shocked with a stun gun three times after officers say he refused to comply with orders while they attempted to clear the field. In an […]
Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Just weeks into the new school year, districts in multiple states are canceling in-person classes for several weeks due to respiratory viruses, including COVID-19, among students and staff. Two school districts in Kentucky — Lee County School District and Magoffin County Schools — said they were closing due to […]
Trevor Williams/Getty Images (TULAS, Okla.) — The Oklahoma state school board voted unanimously on Thursday to upgrade the status of Tulsa Public Schools (TPS) to “accredited with deficiencies” amid fears the largest school district in the state – with more than 33,000 students – could have lost its accreditation status during the second week of […]
Stella/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Books, binders, pens and pencils are just a few of the necessities students across the country will need as the upcoming school year awaits. But a lengthy list of school supplies may have families sweating the price tags associated with these essential items. Luckily, starting this week, several states that […]
Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office (FRANKLIN, N.J.) — A school bus monitor is facing charges after a 6-year-old girl with special needs died following an incident on a bus ride in New Jersey, prosecutors said. The child, who uses a wheelchair, was being transported on a school bus to an extended school year program at a […]
Miguel Sotomayor/Getty Images (GLENDALE, Calif.) — A California school district meeting where administrators voted to recognize Pride month, which celebrates the LGBTQ+ community, erupted into protests outside the venue involving several hundred people, according to the Glendale Police Department. Protesters of the Glendale Unified School District policy to recognize Pride month were met by counterprotesters […]
NASA (NEW YORK) — An asteroid the size of a school bus will be passing by Earth at a distance close to that of the moon on Wednesday, according to NASA. The asteroid, which has an orbit larger than Earth’s, will come as close to the planet as 270,000 miles. The moon is 238,900 miles from […]
Courtesy of Christina Hopkins (BLANCHARD, Okla.) — Most high schoolers graduate in May or June but for one Oklahoma teen, commencement came a little early this school year. Caleb Woodrum, a senior at Blanchard High School in Blanchard, Oklahoma, graduated on March 28 in an early ceremony held at the hospital bedside of his mother […]
