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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 […]
Kristen Zeis for The Washington Post via Getty Images, FILE (NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) — A Virginia first-grade school teacher who was shot in her classroom by a 6-year-old student filed a $40 million lawsuit against her school district, alleging administrators were told the boy brought a gun to school prior to the shooting and “had […]
nazarethman/Getty Images (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — Angry parents and students congregated at the Tennessee State Capitol on Thursday advocating for gun reform in the wake of Monday’s mass shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville. Former “Bachelorette” star Ali Fedotowsky, a Nashville resident and a mom of two, was among the protesters, writing on Instagram, “This […]
www.fuchieh.com/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Just as the school week began across the country Monday, news broke that another school shooting was unfolding in the United States. On Monday morning, according to officials, three children and three staff members were shot and killed at the Covenant School, a private Christian school for students in preschool […]
