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Roughly 1 in 20 Americans own an AR-15 rifle as firearm’s popularity explodes despite role in mass killings

Originally intended for military use, AR-15-style rifles have surged in popularity over the last two decades

The Independent UK

Three children, three staff killed as female shooter storms Christian school

Six people are dead after a woman armed with multiple guns went on a rampage in a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.

The New Daily

3 kids, 3 adults killed in Nashville elementary school shooting, attacker also dead

Three children and three adults were killed in a shooting at a Nashville elementary school Monday morning.

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Three children and three adults dead in Nashville school in another assault rifle mass shooting

Female shooter also dead after encounter with police

The Independent UK

Nashville school shooting - live updates: Victims and killer named as police release photos of smashed door

Shooting took place at The Covenant School in Tennessee city

The Independent UK

Lisa Jarvis: Florida bill would make puberty even more awkward

Florida legislators don’t want teachers to talk with kids about racism or being gay. Soon we might be able to add puberty to the list of verboten subjects. The state is considering a bill that would ban elementary school teachers from talking about puberty and menstruation with students, many of…

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Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus' 'Rainbowland' banned from first-grade spring concert

"Rainbowland," a song by Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus that celebrates acceptance, was recently banned from a spring concert set list at a Wisconsin elementary school.

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How the high cost of housing pushed many LAUSD workers to strike

LOS ANGELES — Before the sun rose, Yadira Martinez, a special education assistant at Florence Avenue Elementary School in South L.A., shuttled around her tiny kitchen, sauteing eggs and potatoes to share with her fellow strikers earlier this week on the picket line.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: They won’t ban Black history, but teachers will be afraid to teach it

There is only one elementary school classmate whose name I remember almost eight decades later.

Tribune News Service

Teacher shot by boy, 6, 'thought she was dead' and will never forget look on his face

Abigail Zwerner, 25, has spoken publicly for the first time since a six-year-old boy took out a gun from his backpack and shot his teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia, US on January 6

Daily Mirror

Richneck Elementary teacher shot by student discusses challenges in recovery

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Abby Zwerner, the first grade teacher shot in January by her student at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, made her first public appearance Monday in an interview with Savannah Guthrie on NBC Nightly News.

Tribune News Service

Robot looks for children missing in 2011 tsunami

SENDAI -- A technical college in Sendai has developed a self-propelled robot equipped with ground-penetrating radar, which it recently deployed to search for four elementary school children missing since the tsunami caused by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

What? A strike? Parents blindsided by looming LAUSD walkout that is closing schools

LOS ANGELES — Like most parents in the nation’s second-largest school district, Marianne Webster was shocked to learn of the massive strike set to shutter public schools across Los Angeles for three days next week.

Los Angeles Times

They feed children who can’t hold a fork. But these LAUSD workers will strike

LOS ANGELES — For 24 years, Peniana Arguelles has worked as a special education assistant in Los Angeles public schools. At Menlo Avenue Elementary School in South Los Angeles she feeds children who can’t hold a fork, changes diapers, helps students choose colors for their paintings, doles out hugs when…

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Why Seattle schools are hinging student success on Black male achievement

SEATTLE — During a math lesson on dividing decimals at Hawthorne Elementary School, 11-year-old Imran Ali said the material didn't click for him until his fifth grade teacher taught it using felt blocks. It was easier, he said, to count out real-life objects instead of grappling with abstract numbers in…

Daily Mirror

Three students hospitalised after mysterious 'stink bomb' released in school classroom

Three students were taken to hospital as a precautionary measure after a stink bomb was released in a classroom at Fairfield Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois

Chicago Sun-Times

3 elementary school students taken to hospital after ‘stink bomb’ released inside South Side classroom

Emergency crews were called to Fairfield Elementary School, 6201 S. Fairfield Ave, after reports that a harmful spray was released inside a classroom.

Daily Mirror

Boy, 6, who took gun out of backpack and shot teacher in classroom will not face charges

Abigail Zwerner, 25, was teaching at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia when a six-year-old student fired a gun at her in what's been described as an "intentional" shooting

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The Independent UK

Boy, 6, will not face charges for shooting Virginia teacher, say prosecutors

Abigail Zwerner was shot and injured on 6 January at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News

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These students raised thousands to make their playground wheelchair-friendly

When a grant for accessible playground equipment didn't cover all the costs, the students at a Minnesota elementary school launched a fundraising campaign.

The Times of India

Ever heard of MoMo twins? Know more about it as US woman gives birth to MoMo twins

Britney Alba from the United States had consecutive pregnancies and gave birth to MoMo twins recently. The elementary school teacher from Tuscaloosa, Alabama gave birth to another set of twins only six months after giving birth to her twin boys Luka and Levi, an official statement from the University of…

Chicago Sun-Times

CPS spending $76 million to upgrade aging security cameras

High-definition cameras will be installed at 311 district schools over three years, CPS announced Wednesday, including at Benito Juarez High School in Pilsen, where two students were killed after school last year.

The Independent UK

Texas third grader finds gun left in elementary school bathroom by superintendent

The district only informed parents and police of the January incident last Wednesday, 15 February

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: How repeat exposure to shootings like Michigan State’s traumatizes young people — and what we can do about it

Yet again this week we are grappling with the news of another mass shooting on school grounds, this time at Michigan State University. Last Monday’s shooting took place on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the attack that killed 17 students and staffers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School…

The Independent UK

Nikki Haley says Ron DeSantis didn’t go ‘far enough’ with Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill

Haley told the crowd at a town hall in New Hampshire that conversations about gender should be banned in elementary schools altogether

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