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Texas community struggles with second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history

A gunman killed at least 19 children and 2 adults at a Texas elementary school. The 18-year-old gunman is also dead, police said.

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19 students, 2 adults killed in Texas elementary school shooting

Shooter, 18, was also dead after opening fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, west of San Antonio

The Independent UK

Three children hospitalised as driver in car with ‘incendiary devices’ crashes into elementary school sidewalk

Children, two girls aged 7 and 11 and a boy aged 10, are now in stable condition

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‘Incendiary devices’ found in car that hit 3 people near Santa Ana elementary school

Incendiary devices were found in a vehicle that rolled onto a sidewalk and struck three people near Taft Elementary School in Santa Ana on Monday, but did not appear to be intended for use in any sort of attack on the campus, Orange County sheriff’s officials said.

The Orange County Register

John Fetterman’s nomination was a rejection of Conor Lamb’s electability claims

PITTSBURGH — As Conor Lamb greeted voters outside of an elementary school polling place, Johanna Stankorb put on her “I voted sticker” and shuffled out of his way.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Mother charged after 7-year-old took gun to school, classmate grazed

CHICAGO — The mother of an elementary school student who took a gun to school in a backpack — which “accidentally discharged in the backpack while inside a classroom,” and grazed another student in the stomach — has been charged and will appear in court Wednesday, Chicago police said.

Chicago Tribune

Okinawa 50 yrs since return / Steam locomotive shows bond with rest of country

The majestic steam locomotive never ran on any tracks in Okinawa Prefecture, never carried any passengers, never pulled any freight. But for the past half-century it has been sitting in a park in Naha as a symbol of Okinawa's link to the rest of Japan upon its post-war return to…

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2 wounded by gunfire near Little Village grade school where classes had just gotten out

No students at Finkl Academy were injured, but classes had ended 15 minutes earlier and many students were still around and ran in a panic for cover, witnesses said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jerry Zezima: Music to my years

When I think of the legendary concerts in music history — the Beatles at Shea Stadium in New York City; Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and other rock giants at Woodstock; me as the guest triangle player for the Stamford Symphony Orchestra — the one I remember as the greatest was…

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Man charged with following 12-year-old girl near North Side grade school

The girl, 12, was walking west in the 2600 block of Bryn Mawr Avenue to school when a man in a white four-door Honda pulled up and signaled her over with his hand, police said.

Chicago Sun-Times

These Chicago-area kids won the Sun-Times’ latest student art contest

We asked students for their artistic takes on the theme ‘Spring ahead’ — and had artists Molly Z., Cheri Charlton, Rahmaan Statik and POSE review their work.

Chicago Sun-Times

Do you want to build a robot?

Teams of students were on the clock to build robots out of a pile of Legos.

Chicago Sun-Times

Brickbat: School Discipline

Tara Coleman Hunter, assistant principal of an elementary school in San Antonio, Texas, has been charged with felony bodily injury to a child. Police said a 5-year-old boy had been sent to the assistant principal's office because he had been unruly. The boy struck Hunter, and she shoved him into…

Reason

A New Orleans community center rises from its ugly history as a segregated school

They were known as “the McDonogh Three,” and unlike many stories of the tumultuous civil rights era, this one has a hopeful ending.

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Disruptive kindergartners are likely to be bullied later in elementary school

Kindergartners who act out, disrupt classrooms, get angry and argue with their teachers are especially likely to be bullied once they reach third, fourth and fifth grade, our research group has found.

Tribune News Service

Florida approves more math books but provides no explanation

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A series of elementary school math textbooks previously rejected by Florida won state approval this week and can now be purchased by school districts that want books to match state standards.

Orlando Sentinel

Florida is down to one approved publisher for K-5 math classes. Here’s why that worries some educators

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida’s school districts may be down to just a single option for buying new elementary school math textbooks — and it’s a choice that concerns some educators.

Reason

Brickbat: Bend Over

Lawrence County, Alabama, schools Superintendent Jon Bret Smith has placed Hazlewood Elementary School Principal Datie Priest on paid leave and issued her a written reprimand claiming she, among other things, violated the school system's discipline policy. Smith said Priest paddled one student twice on one day, once for 10 licks…

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