Tag: School

Roughly 1,000 public school teachers in Washington, DC, are operating without a license, according to a report released Thursday.

Obama Sec. of Education and staunch gun control advocate Arne Duncan sends his kids to a school with armed security. On May 20 Breitbart News reported that Duncan suggested Americans ought to pull their kids from school until Congress passes more gun control. 

A New York state school district is considering a student proposal to do away with homework assignments after receiving a petition started by a few elementary school students.

Talk show host and MSBNC personality Hugh Hewitt took time Monday to discuss the Santa Fe High School shooting and floated the idea of banning trench coats in schools. 

A broadly applicable lesson from the Santa Fe High School shooting is that our nation’s school safety threat does not come from AR-15s or “high capacity” magazines but from gun-free zones.

The weapons policy of Santa Fe High School in Texas makes clear that no firearms, imitation firearms, BB guns, or ammunition is allowed on campus.

A man who has made it his quest to interview every living World War II veteran admitted Tuesday in an interview that he learned more from interviewing the veterans than anything he learned in school.

A concerned parent of a Florida high school teen shared his outrage over a question on his daughter’s homework assignment that described “revenge sex.”

A study by the Boston University School of Medicine suggests high crime in gun-controlled states may be due to lax laws in states with fewer gun controls.

To protect their students from mass-shooters, a Pennsylvania school district spent $1,800 to arm all 500 of its teachers with a tiny, 16-inch baseball bat.

Chicago Public Schools is in the process of building a $70 million public school campus on more than 38,000 unmarked graves.

24,000 e-mail threats sent to 400 schools in the U.K. seem to have been the result of friction between players on a Minecraft multiplayer game server.

President Donald Trump plans to meet with interested parties at the White House to discuss preventing school shootings in America.

The government is too politically correct to help schools attempting to ban Islamic hijabs, leaving teachers “alone, isolated and vulnerable”, the former head of Ofsted has said.

A £1500-a-year Muslim girls school has been given the inspectorates lowest raking, after a series of failings including not providing toilet paper for “cultural” reasons.

A Louisiana mother is going viral after she came up with a unique idea to punish her teenage son for getting suspended from school.

A father has refused to allow his 12-year-old daughter to do a school homework assignment – which is “in line with the National Curriculum” – asking her to write a letter to her family telling them she has converted to Islam.

A Christian family is preparing to sue a school for allowing children to change their ‘gender identity’ on a daily basis, and for implying parents who oppose are bigoted and “transphobic”.

A new Channel 4 documentary shows British teachers telling pupils there are “a lot of similarities between Hitler and Trump”, and suggesting the most important people to look after following the Manchester Arena terror bombing are Muslim pupils.

LONDON (AP) — Boys at a British high school have found a novel way around strict uniform rules banning shorts, as the country swelters through a heatwave. The schoolboys at Isca Academy in the southwestern city of Exeter donned skirts

A member of UKIP’s youth wing has been labelled “far right” by his school and reported to the Government’s PREVENT de-radicalisation programme, which is designed to stop “young people from being drawn into terrorism”.

The Superintendent of Alexandria City Public Schools has announced that all schools will be closed on Wednesday after some 300 staff members in the district requested the day off to take part in the A Day Without a Woman protest being staged in the U.S. and elsewhere as part of International Women’s Day.

“Solano County is warning people about an active case of tuberculosis [TB] on the campus of Armijo High School” in Fairfield, California, KOVR TV in Sacramento reported in its February 16 evening newscast.

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian police said Thurday they had arrested a female teacher for making statements supportive of the Islamic State extremist group.

Teachers in California are struggling to calm children down about the election of Donald Trump, after failing to teach them about democracy.

An 11-year old boy was assaulted by several classmates in his Texas classroom, after he said he had supported Donald Trump in a school mock-election.

JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority has defended its decision to name a school after the mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, calling Israel “deluded” for demanding that Palestinians not honor “martyrs.”

TEL AVIV – The Jewish director of an elite school in Moscow has resigned following accusations that a former history teacher at his school had sex with teenage female students before fleeing to Israel.

Parents at a school in Everett, WA after school bus footage was released of an April incident on a hot school bus that resulted in a girl passing out, a Fox 8 report says. With temperatures topping out around 80 degrees, the

Eleven months after California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) pressured the San Diego Unified School District to change the name of San Diego’s Robert E. Lee Elementary, school officials are pushing forward with the change, and despite calls from the public to keep the name.

President Barack Obama defended his decision to release a rule forcing schools to allow students to use their bathroom of choice regardless of gender.

A Scottish school where every single one the 222 students were born abroad is appealing for extra money, as it struggles to teach the children who cannot speak English. At Annette Street primary school in Glasgow, 181 of the school’s 222 students

Sen. Ted Cruz is facing an uphill battle in New York.

According to new government backed plans, schools will be able to apply for £30,000 grants to plug so-called ‘diversity gaps’. After receiving the money, they will be obliged to promote members of staff who have benefited from the money, regardless of their

According to a report by 11Alive, an attack on an unsuspecting seventh grade student in Georgia left him with a broken nose. The 12-year-old said the attack came out of nowhere, as he was sitting in his desk when it