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Following the deadly school shooting at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville Monday, one teacher has turned to social media to ask fellow educators what they do to prepare for emergencies such as an active shooter incident. Erica Rogers teaches preschoolers at a Baptist church in North Carolina and said for her, this latest school shooting seemed to hit closer to home given the parallels she saw in what unfolded in the Tennessee capital and her everyday life. "After learning about Monday's shooting in Nashville, it just kind of really triggered me," Rogers, 28, told "Good Morning America."
- USA TODAY Opinion
DeSantis is more than anti-'woke.' He just delivered universal school choice to Florida.
After years of COVID-related school shutdowns and a focus on leftist ideology at schools, frustrated parents have started demanding new options.
- Belleville News-Democrat
Freeburg school principal to resign, saying some people ‘terrorize our school community’
“A few in our school, on our Board, and in our community are choosing to terrorize our school community, instead of building our school and helping our students,” the resignation letter says.
- Associated Press
College ends partnership with school over the David issue
A Michigan college has ended its partnership with a Florida charter school whose principal was forced to resign after a parent complained sixth graders were exposed to pornography during a lesson on Renaissance art that included Michelangelo’s David sculpture. A Hillsdale College spokesperson said Tallahassee Classical School no longer is affiliated with the small, Christian classical liberal arts college in southern Michigan, MLive.com reported Thursday. “This drama around teaching Michelangelo’s ‘David’ sculpture, one of the most important works of art in existence, has become a distraction from, and a parody of, the actual aims of classical education,” spokesperson Emily Stack Davis wrote in a statement.
- Austin American-Statesman
More layoffs are coming to Central Texas as two employers cut dozens of jobs
Round Rock-based nonprofit Trellis Company to cut 105 jobs.
- Business Insider
A principal in Florida has resigned after writing a $100,000 check of the school's money to a scammer pretending to be Elon Musk
Despite staff warnings, the principal talked with the scammer for months, thinking Elon Musk would donate millions in exchange for $100,000 upfront.
- NextShark
Black Japanese student segregated during his graduation ceremony for wearing cornrows
A high school in Japan became the center of online scrutiny after a biracial student was segregated from his classmates during their graduation ceremony in February for wearing cornrows. The student, who was born in China and is a dual citizen of Japan and the United States, decided to go home in the middle of the ceremony, before his name was called.
- Palm Beach Daily News
Palm Beach County college students blindsided their scholarships were yanked. What happened?
College students who received $4,000 scholarships applied to renew them each year. In January, they learned the renewals were abruptly ended.
- The 74
‘Heavy Hand’: Ohio Teachers Oppose Governor’s Science of Reading-Only Edict
Ohio’s teachers unions are pushing back against Gov. Mike DeWine’s attempt to make phonics-based “science of reading” methods the only way to teach reading in Ohio’s schools — but DeWine and state education officials are holding their ground. The presidents of both the Ohio Education Association and Ohio Federation of Teachers praised DeWine for making […]
- Reuters
Last students graduate: School closures spread in ageing Japan
TEN-EI, Japan (Reuters) - - As Eita Sato and Aoi Hoshi walked towards their junior high school graduation ceremony, their footsteps echoed in polished halls once crowded and noisy with students. The two were the only graduates of Yumoto Junior High in a mountainous part of northern Japan - and the last.
- The Bergen Record
Conservative group parks billboard by North Jersey home after law students heckle judge
A conservative free speech group sent a billboard truck to Englewood Cliffs to protest Stanford law students who disrupted a federal judge's speech
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Hastings principals: Racist, sexist, homophobic student behavior affecting ability to teach
A memo from principals at Farragut Middle School said some students feel unsafe because of the racist, sexist behavior of other students.
- Raleigh News and Observer
Which NC colleges have the best party scenes, athletics? Here’s what NYT rankings say
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- The Telegraph
Schools should not have gender neutral toilets, suggests Kemi Badenoch
Kemi Badenoch has suggested schools should not have gender neutral toilets as she insisted privacy was “the key thing” for pupils.
- Tallahassee Democrat
Faculty tell board erosion of tenure has prospective profs saying 'not Florida, not now'
“If you pass this regulation, Florida’s university system will go from the most competitive in the country to the least, and it will happen overnight,” United Faculty of Florida President Andrew Goth…
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The only student on a Japanese island for the past 9 years just graduated as a class of 1
On March 14, 15-year-old Akina Imanaka graduated from junior high school as the only student on the island of Oteshima, located off the coast of Kagawa prefecture in western Japan. Since starting elementary school nine years ago, Imanaka has been Oteshima’s sole student on an island with only 34 residents. Imanaka has spent the past few years learning from the five teachers at Oteshima Junior High School.
- USA TODAY
Why do mass shooters target K-12 schools? Here's what we know after Nashville shooting
Why do shooters target schools? In part because shootings of children draw significant attention, experts said.
- State College Centre Daily Times
Penn State pushes back planned DEIB town hall to April; announcement expected soon
The town hall was originally expected to take place sometime in March.
- WLS – Chicago
Student brings ammo to Elmhurst school, resulting in lockdown: police
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