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Mum of 6-year-old who shot teacher faces US gun charges

NEWPORT NEWS: The mother of a 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his elementary school teacher was charged on Monday with two US firearms felonies, and her lawyer said she will plead guilty to both offenses under a deal with federal prosecutors.

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Protest over Pride month assembly at Los Angeles school turns violent

Reports of fights breaking out over a book reading about inclusive families forced police officers to separate clashing groups

The Guardian - US

Protests erupt outside Los Angeles elementary school’s Pride month assembly

Police officers are separating protesters and counterprotesters outside a Los Angeles elementary school that has become a flashpoint for LGBTQ+ issues involving children in California during Pride month

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Immigrant dies at shelter at shuttered Woodlawn school that stirred controversy

Officers responded Friday morning to a call of a 26-year-old man who was “foaming at the mouth and unresponsive” at the old Wadsworth Elementary School building, police said. He died there.

Chicago Sun-Times

Protests erupt outside Los Angeles elementary school's Pride month assembly

The Independent UK

After 10 years, Chicago school closings have left big holes, and promises unkept

Ten years ago Chicago Public Schools leaders voted to close 50 public schools. WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times examined the promises made to students and communities in 2013.

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Samantha Fish: “I play other guitars, but I always go back to the SG because it fights me just enough. I need something to push back a little bit and she does”

The blues-rock ace on what draws her to both Gibson and Fender, why all guitar players should learn drums, and how she ended up using an elementary school PA system for her tones on her new album with Jesse Dayton, Death Wish Blues

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Texas parents fret over Winnie the Pooh being used to teach kids about school shootings

The Dallas school district has apologized for not giving parents any warning or guidance before it sent elementary school students home with a Winnie the Pooh-themed book about what to do in the event of a school shooting

The Independent UK

Connecticut House approves major gun control bill as Republicans blast attack on ‘citizens’ rights’

HARTFORD, Conn. — One day after the one-year anniversary of the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Connecticut legislators passed the state’s most comprehensive gun-control package since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings more than a decade ago.

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Boy, 8, picked up by his dad at school on horseback becoming the envy of his friends

A remarkable scene unfolded as a dad made a grand entrance to pick up his son riding his 12-year-old horse at Rose Union Elementary School in Oklahoma City, US

Daily Mirror

Amanda Gorman’s poem for Biden’s inauguration banned by Florida school

A parent’s complaint led to the poem, ‘The Hill We Climb,’ being placed a restricted list by an elementary school. ‘I’m gutted,’ the poet said in a Facebook post.

Chicago Sun-Times

“Somber day” in Uvalde as community commemorates one year since Robb Elementary shooting

Numerous vigils and memorials in Uvalde marked one year since the massacre at Robb Elementary School. In what became the deadliest school shooting in Texas, a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers and injured 17 others.

The Texas Tribune

Parents plan boycott over Pride Day at LA elementary school

LOS ANGELES -- Outraged conservative parents at a Los Angeles elementary school say they plan to keep their children home on the school's Pride Day to protest the school teaching students about gay parents.

Los Angeles Times

A Miami-Dade school flagged her poem. The county’s mayor invited her to read it

Miami-Dade County’s mayor on Wednesday invited poet Amanda Gorman to read her work in the Miami area after a local K-8 public school decided the poem she delivered at Joe Biden’s inaugural ceremony wasn’t suitable for elementary school children.

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The Independent UK

Amanda Gorman's poem for Biden's inauguration banned by Florida school

A poem written for President Joe Biden’s inauguration has been placed on a restricted list at a South Florida elementary school after one parent's complaint

The Independent UK

Watch: Butterflies released in Uvalde to mark one year since school massacre

Watch as a butterfly release marks one year since the Uvalde school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Texas.

The Independent UK

Uvalde victim's mother perseveres through teaching, connecting with daughter's memory

The relatives of 19 students and two teachers gunned down at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, are still waiting for answers a year later

Chicago Sun-Times

One year after Uvalde shooting, investigation of police response continues

Wednesday marks one year since a gunman killed 19 children and two adults at an elementary school. A probe is ongoing into delays by police entering the school.

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He was a journalist covering education. What he saw made him switch professions

Cameron Fields was a Cleveland-based reporter who did a deep dive into elementary schools. Now he's leaving journalism behind to pursue a career as a teacher.

The Independent UK

Teen elementary school mass shooter apologises for first time since 2016 attack

Jesse Osborne, 21, shot and killed six-year-old Jacob Hall at South Carolina school in 2016, as well as his father

Chicago Tribune

As migrants move into shelters, surrounding communities respond: ‘They have value’

CHICAGO -- On a recent sunny afternoon in Chicago's Woodlawn area, more than a dozen men from Venezuela gathered in a parking lot outside a shuttered elementary school that is now a shelter for migrants, kicking a soccer ball and blaring music from cars.

The Texas Tribune

Texas Senate passes school safety bill that would require districts to bolster their active-shooter plans

Both chambers have said school safety is a priority this session after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at a Uvalde elementary school last year.

The Independent UK

TV station under fire for report on man with AR-15 ‘protesting’ gun control at school bus stop

Twitter users express anger after WBAL-TV reporter teases ‘both sides’ of story on Twitter

The Independent UK

Dozens of Serbia schools receive bomb threats amid concerns following mass shootings in early May

Authorities say dozens of Serbian schools have received bomb threats amid security concerns following two mass shootings early this month, including one in an elementary school

Reason

"FIRE to Uvalde: Lift Ban on Father who Questioned School Safety or We'll Sue"

From a press release by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, whose descriptions and analyses of their cases I have generally found reliable: Mere months after the Uvalde school district suspended its entire police force for failing to effectively respond to a deadly shooting at an elementary school, school…

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