The Calallen Wildcats football team may be preparing for the biggest game of the year on Fridaybut some of the players are getting a little perspective from the charity work they’re doing. Heaters for heroes was started only a week ago when David Salinas Jr. of the United Veterans Burial Association heard from a veteran … Read more
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Four Overbrook High School students were shot late Wednesday morning right as the school was dismissing early, according to police. The shooting happened at about 11:30 a.m. near the intersection of 60th and Oxford streets, about a block from the school, outside of The Beauty Lounge. According to police, people inside a … Read more
A mother of a teen victim at the Parkland shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School has ousted a school board chair that was hand-picked by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The Miami Herald reported that Broward School Board member Lori Alhadeff was elected as the chair of the board at the meeting Tuesday. Torey Alston, the … Read more
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) – For the last six weeks, De Smet Jesuit High School has been competing with other Jesuit high schools around the country for the Great Ignatian Food Drive challenge. The goal was to raise nine tons of non-perishable food to be donated to a local pantry. And, well, De Smet blew … Read more
Kriti Sanon shared this image. (courtesy: kritisanon) New Delhi: Kriti Sanon visited her school and was super thrilled about it. The actress returned to school after a decade-and-a-half for a very special reason – to promote her film Bhediya. Sharing an image of herself standing outside the gate of her school, DPS RK Puram, Kriti Sanon said, “Back to … Read more
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — From the classroom to a hospital room, students at West Boca Raton Community High School are putting on their scrubs to get hands-on experience in the Medical Sciences program. Their rotations in the hospital were on pause during the COVID-19 pandemic, but now the program is back to its full … Read more
PICKENS COUNTY, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – The school bus driver who crashed a bus with 40 kids on board this past August had pleaded guilty in 2008 to a drug charge, a charge later dismissed from his record thanks to Georgia’s “conditional discharge” program. Jeffrey Tucker’s 2007 arrest and 2008 guilty plea in Canton … Read more
The US looks set to withdraw a record number of books from the country’s schools and libraries this year as America’s culture wars place growing pressure on children, educators and publishers. Fresh estimates from the American Library Association and PEN America, which campaigns for literary freedom, show a surge in recent efforts by parents, advocacy … Read more
A Charles County teacher’s life lesson not to give up may have saved his life.Frank Holiday’s students are inspired by his lessons in welding class at North Point High School in Waldorf.”He doesn’t sugarcoat stuff. He tells us the truth about life,” said Kayden Chavers, a student.But while playing a game of 3-on-3 basketball on … Read more
It’s been three years since Kaia Rolle was arrested at her school in Orlando for having a temper tantrum.Kaia was six years old when Dennis Turner, a former officer for the Orlando Police Department, who was fired as a result of this incident, walked into the room at Lucious and Emma Nixon Academy on Sept. … Read more