7-Year-Old Kicked Off School Bus, Forced To Wander Alone
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...
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...
Dinu Ahmed | Posted 05.16.2012
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.
AP | Posted 05.01.2012
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...
AP | JERI CLAUSING | Posted 04.18.2012
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...
Rep. Bruce Braley | Posted 04.17.2012
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.
Steven Wasko | Posted 05.30.2012
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.
Posted 03.27.2012
Emergency Medical Services workers in Austin, Texas are investigating an alleged incident in which a paramedic poured blood on a high school student's...
Posted 05.26.2012
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-...
Posted 03.06.2012
Students and employees of Colorado institutions of higher education can legally carry guns on campus, according to a state Supreme Court ruling Monday...
Posted 03.01.2012
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...
AP | Posted 02.28.2012
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...
AP | MANUEL VALDES | Posted 04.25.2012
SEATTLE — Prosecutors are expecting the police investigation into a shooting at a Washington elementary school to include a harder look into wha...
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 02.16.2012
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...
Annette Fuentes | Posted 04.09.2012
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.
Alan Singer | Posted 03.28.2012
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.
AP | PAUL FOY and JENNIFER DOBNER | Posted 03.28.2012
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...
AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 03.27.2012
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...
Bettina Elias Siegel | Posted 03.21.2012
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.
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.09.2012
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...
Gloria Bonilla Santiago | Posted 02.27.2012
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.
AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 02.11.2012
EDINBURG, Texas — Dozens of law enforcement officers trudged through soggy brush near a South Texas middle school Tuesday looking for casings an...
AP | By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 02.11.2012
EDINBURG, Texas -- Authorities suspect hunters may have shot two South Texas middle school students who were wounded by gunfire Monday afternoon while...
AP | LARRY LAGE | Posted 02.04.2012
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 ...
Posted 01.18.2012
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...
Larry Strauss | Posted 01.04.2012
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.
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.30.2012