Pennsyvlania crossing guard, Kiara Lee, gave middle school students weed, vapes
A school security guard is accused of giving drugs to middle school students in Pennsylvania and also smoking marijuana with at least one of them. Delaware County police arrested 26-year-old Kiara Lee on Tuesday after she allegedly provided e-cigarettes and marijuana edibles to children. Lee, a crossing guard at Pennwood Middle School in Derby, Pennsylvania, […]
NC School Suspends Teen for Saying ‘Illegal Alien,’ Compares to ‘Saying the N-Word’
A North Carolina teenager was suspended from school for using the term “illegal immigrants” during a classroom discussion, an action that school administrators likened to “saying the N-word.” Christian McGee, 16, was suspended for three days in April after asking a teacher whether the word “alien” referred to “space aliens or illegal immigrants who need […]
Pennsylvania school crossing guard accused of distributing products to students
A local crossing guard in Pennsylvania has been arrested for allegedly supplying drugs to a middle school student. According to authorities, 26-year-old Kiara Lee was taken into custody Tuesday night and arrested for distributing substances, including e-cigarettes and marijuana, to students at Pennwood Middle School. Police told Fox 29 Philadelphia that one of the students […]
Dozens killed in Israeli strike on UN school, Gaza officials say | Israel-Gaza war
The Hamas-run Gaza Government Media Office said Israeli forces had attacked a United Nations school for displaced people in Al-Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least 27 people and wounding dozens. The statement accused Israeli forces of carrying out a “horrific massacre that is a disgrace to humanity.” The Health Ministry did not […]
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School boards group backs out of teacher exchange program amid ex-North Dakota lawmaker’s charges
A North Dakota school board organization has returned more than $140,000 to the state and ended its role in a teacher exchange program, months after an indictment was unsealed against a former state lawmaker accused of traveling to Europe on state funds and then to Prague with the intent of paying for sex with a […]
University of Iowa latest school to restructure DEI office while keeping ideology alive
A growing number of universities are axing their diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements, but the University of Iowa became the latest to restructure its DEI office while attempting to preserve the operational ideology. The University of Iowa announced that it restructured the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, rebranding it as the Division of Access, […]
Texas GOP contests may have paved way for school choice
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan narrowly survived re-election in the 21st Congressional District. somehow In the Republican primary runoff, both candidates received more than 12,000 votes, winning by just 400 votes. However, other incumbents in the Texas House of Representatives did not fare much better. Between the March Republican primary and the May primary runoff […]
English pupil funding at same level as when Tories took power, study finds | School funding
According to a leading British economic think tank, per-pupil education spending in England has been frozen for an unprecedented 14 years since the Conservative Party came to power. In its latest analysis of school spending, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said budgets per pupil are now at 2010 levels in real terms, but teacher salaries […]
Homeless student graduates Louisiana high school as valedictorian
A Louisiana student living in a homeless shelter overcame hardship to graduate at the top of his class from his New Orleans high school this spring. Elijah Hogan, 19, received his diploma this spring as the top of Walter L. Cohen High School’s class of 2024 and plans to attend college in the fall. But […]