School Safety

7-Year-Old Kicked Off School Bus, Forced To Wander Alone

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.30.2012

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Amber Hobdy, a mother from Eagle Mountain, Utah, is outraged after her 7-year-daughter Kya was allegedly kicked off a school bus in an unfamiliar neig...

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Bronx Parents and Community Members Protest Harsh Disciplinary Procedures

Dinu Ahmed | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: New York City Department of Education, Arrests, Education, Bronx, Incarceration, Discipline, School to Prison, School Safety, South Bronx, Education News

The Bronx-based groups argue that harsh and punitive disciplinary measures that remove children from the classroom for minor incidents only exacerbate the problem of school pushout, and differentially impact youth of color.

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Police Shoots Teen In Classroom Break-In Investigation

AP | Posted 05.01.2012

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PASADENA, Texas — A police officer told investigators Tuesday that he shot a 14-year-old boy suspected in the overnight break-in of a Houston-ar...

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Georgia Handcuffing Of Kindergartner For Tantrum Renews School Policing Debate

AP | JERI CLAUSING | Posted 04.18.2012

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A New Mexico teacher asked a 13-year-old girl to stop talking with her friend and move to another seat. The girl refused. Th...

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Put the Brakes on School Bus Tragedies

Rep. Bruce Braley | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Iowa, Kadyn Halverson, Congress, School Bus Safety, Terry Branstad, Bruce Braley, Kadyn's Law, School Safety, School Bus Crash, School Bus, Politics News

Across the nation, drivers illegally pass stopped school buses 13 million times each year; in Iowa, 138,600 times every year. If we cut that number, we'll reduce the number of children killed and injured by reckless drivers.

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Inside Detroit Public Schools: More on the Citizen Patrollers and Their Work to Protect the Students

Steven Wasko | Posted 05.30.2012

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Detroit Public School expanded citizens' patrols and also issued a call for additional volunteers this year. That, plus a multi-agency effort, resulted in safer schools and safer routes to school.

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Paramedic Pours Blood On Student During Drunk Driving Lesson

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Drunk Driving, School Drunk Driving Lesson, Paramedics Pour Blood on Student, Shattered Dreams, Blood Safety, High-School-Drunk-Driving, School Safety, Video, Education News

Emergency Medical Services workers in Austin, Texas are investigating an alleged incident in which a paramedic poured blood on a high school student's...

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School Bans Girl With Cerebral Palsy From Using Walker

Posted 05.26.2012

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A Texas mother is planning to file a lawsuit against New Caney Independent School District after her daughter's special education director said the 5-...

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Court: Colorado Students Can Carry Concealed Weapons On Campus

Posted 03.06.2012

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Students and employees of Colorado institutions of higher education can legally carry guns on campus, according to a state Supreme Court ruling Monday...

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Cancer-Causing Gas Abundant In 70,000 U.S. Schools: Why You'd Never Know

Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Radon Testing in Schools, Radon in Schools, School Health, Student Health, Radon Testing, Massachusetts Schools, School Safety, Colorado Schools, Radon, Video, Education News

A toxic, cancer-causing gas is threatening the health of students in thousands of classrooms across the country, but many districts aren't doing anyth...

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12-Year-Old Boy In Custody For Brandishing Loaded Gun

AP | Posted 02.28.2012

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WARREN, Texas -- Sheriff's deputies have taken a 12-year-old boy into custody after witnesses reported he pointed a loaded gun at a classmate standing...

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Father: 'My Kid Made A Mistake' In School Shooting

AP | MANUEL VALDES | Posted 04.25.2012

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SEATTLE — Prosecutors are expecting the police investigation into a shooting at a Washington elementary school to include a harder look into wha...

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Teacher Attacked By Steer At School

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 02.16.2012

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Bill Kucic, a teacher at the Pioneer Career and Technology Center in Shelby, Ohio, was rushed to the hospital by helicopter after he was attacked by a...

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Chicago Schools Pumped Up on Policing

Annette Fuentes | Posted 04.09.2012

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Policing in Chicago's schools arguably diminishes the quality of life, and more to the point, the educations of thousands of kids who get on the wrong side of the law.

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New York City and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Alan Singer | Posted 03.28.2012

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Metal detectors at school entrances make many New York City schools feel more like prisons than places where young people want to be and contribute to the sense that these are not a place where people are respected.

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Utah Girl Credited With Outing High School Bombing Plot

AP | PAUL FOY and JENNIFER DOBNER | Posted 03.28.2012

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ROY, Utah — The two teens had a detailed plot, blueprints of the school and security systems, but no explosives. They had hours of flight simula...

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Utah Teens Arrested In Alleged School Bombing Plot

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 03.27.2012

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SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah high school student bragged to police that he was smarter than the Columbine killers and was plotting with an older stud...

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A Preventable Tragedy: Choking to Death in the School Cafeteria

Bettina Elias Siegel | Posted 03.21.2012

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We can't prevent every conceivable tragedy that might strike our kids at school. But in the case of a choking, physically demonstrating the Heimlich maneuver to school food service workers as part of their regular training hardly seems burdensome.

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7-Year-Old Accidentally Fires Gun On Loaded Bus

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.09.2012

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An unidentified 7-year-old from Mesa, Ariz., has been detained after a handgun he brought discharged on a loaded school bus, authorities say, accordin...

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Urban Violence Is a National Crisis

Gloria Bonilla Santiago | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Education, Police, Violence, Camden New Jersey, Safe Schools, Camden Violence, Urban Violence, School Safety, Crime News

Violence and crime are happening in schools in cities like Camden and other poor urban centers throughout the country. Our families have come together to object the violence in our city.

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3 Hunters Questioned In Texas School Shooting

AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 02.11.2012

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EDINBURG, Texas — Dozens of law enforcement officers trudged through soggy brush near a South Texas middle school Tuesday looking for casings an...

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2 Students Shot, Wounded At Texas Middle School

AP | By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 02.11.2012

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EDINBURG, Texas -- Authorities suspect hunters may have shot two South Texas middle school students who were wounded by gunfire Monday afternoon while...

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Mother Of Fallen Teen Athlete Wants Defibrillators In Schools

AP | LARRY LAGE | Posted 02.04.2012

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Tiny Fennville, Mich., is getting ready to host a basketball game for the first time since Wes Leonard made a game-winning shot and collapsed seconds ...

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Teen Arrested For Plotting Columbine-Like High School Shooting

Posted 01.18.2012

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A junior high student in Puyallup, Wash. was arrested Thursday for reportedly plotting to shoot up his school Columbine-style. The 14-year-old's p...

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An Unsafe School Is No School At All

Larry Strauss | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: South Los Angeles, Schools, School Gangs, School Safety, Education News

I'm pretty sure that if students at a suburban high school ever found themselves in the kind of danger in which South L.A. students routinely find themselves some state of emergency would be declared.

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