A woman has been arrested in Illinois after allegedly fighting with the principal of an elementary school who had told her during a meeting that police would be called because she dropped baggies of cocaine, reports say. The incident involving Shakeda Barfield happened on Wednesday morning at Welsh Elementary School in Rockford, according to WIFR. The station, citing police, says …
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Graduation season can be bittersweet for a lot of seniors, but many of the 2024 graduates of Newtown High School in Connecticut are carrying a heavier burden. The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School shook the nation as one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history on Dec. 14, 2012, according to the Associated Press (AP). During the incident, …
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A Pennsylvania father is still demanding answers nearly a week after a special needs student allegedly assaulted his 5-year-old son at an elementary school, leaving his child with a bloody facial gash and missing teeth, his attorney tells Fox News Digital. David Langsam, of Injury Law Partners, is representing Steve Callahan and his family after Callahan blasted the Keystone Elementary …
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One person was killed in a shooting at a middle school in Marion County, Florida during a school awards program on Wednesday evening, police said. Officials with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office announced in a press release that the shooting happened at North Marion County Middle School in Citra, Florida, which is 30 miles south of Gainesville, on Wednesday evening. …
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A Washington state elementary student is celebrating success after battling her school to start an interfaith prayer club. Laura, a fifth-grade student at Creekside Elementary, was initially told no when she sought to create a prayer group that welcomed all students. But with the help of First Liberty Institute, a nonprofit Christian organization, Laura was victorious. “After they said no, …
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A county school board in Virginia decided this week to restore the original Confederate names of two schools previously deemed offensive. Following the death of George Floyd in 2020, the Shenandoah County School Board voted to change the names of two schools in their jurisdiction named after Confederate generals. Stonewall Jackson High School, named after Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, became …
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul apologized this week after saying there are Black kids in the Bronx who don’t know what the word “computer” means. Hochul made the remarks during an address at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, California. “Now what we have is the money to build a phenomenal super computer that is gonna be accessible …
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has announced his state will not be implementing changes to Title IX protections propagated by President Biden’s administration. Abbott, in a letter sent to the White House on Monday, rebuked the Biden administration’s expansion of Title IX protections to protect “gender identity.” “Title IX was written by Congress to support the advancement of women academically and …
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A legal expert weighed in after prosecutors in Virginia said that a criminal investigation into staff members at Richneck Elementary School, where a 6-year-old shot his teacher, would continue into the child’s missing disciplinary files. Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Fox News Digital that LaQuiche Parrott, the director of Elementary Leadership, could be …
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A 6-year-old old student who shot his first grade teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia last year exhibited signs of violence prior to the shooting and should not have been enrolled in school, according to a special grand jury report released Wednesday. Behavioral Problems: The child “exhibited many behavioral problems” prior to the Jan. 6, 2023 incident where he …
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