DA Staff

Students of color push back on calls for police in schools

For Black students and other students of color, their personal experiences with policing can leave them feeling unsafe and alienated from school when they see officers on campus.

U.S. senator suggests using military veterans to provide security in schools

Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Twitter that there were "hundreds of thousands" of veterans who would bring an array of experience in order to keep schoolchildren safe in classrooms.

DeSantis overrules lawmakers, rejects penalties for school mask mandates

Lawmakers tried to penalize a dozen school districts that imposed mask mandates in fall 2021 against the rules and guidelines set forth by the DeSantis administration.

Some Ohio teachers ‘terrified’ over new bill allowing educators to carry guns in school

Bill would create a minimum training commitment of 24 hours for teachers who voluntarily choose to carry guns in schools.

Virginia will spend $27 million to get more cops in schools

The bulk of the money will likely fund police positions in elementary schools a pre-pandemic investigation found that Virginia schools referred more Black students to law enforcement than any other state.

Safety officials will conduct “unannounced, random intruder” audits of Texas public schools

Gov. Greg Abbott has tasked the Texas School Safety Center with unannounced audits to see how quickly staff can enter a school building without being stopped.

Montana state superintendent fined $100 in school bus passing case

Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen pleaded no contest to a citation alleging she illegally passed a stopped school bus while children were boarding in May.

If property values are soaring, why do school districts need more money?

In a year of sticker shock for homeowners and renters, school leaders in two Tampa Bay counties are pitching a product that could be a tough sell: Higher property taxes to support public schools.

A Virginia school district is giving out 8,000 free gun locks to families

Gun locks will be available for families at no charge after a string of gun violence in Roanoke City Public Schools and on the heels of the Uvalde school shooting.

Oregon lets schools ban guns on campus, but few districts have made that choice

Just 13% of the state's districts have chosen to block holders of a concealed handgun license to carry weapons onto public property where possessing a gun would otherwise be a felony.

Bullying on the rise in Boston schools

District data shows more than an 80% increase in complaints to 440 so far this year, compared to the 243 complaints in 2018-2019, the last full year of in-person learning.

Ohio gets closer to allowing adults to carry guns in schools

Ohio is only mere steps away from allowing adults to carry guns in schools with just two hours of hands-on firearm training.

Progressives try to counter right-wing school board anger

A lot of people who run for school board are parents or teachers; 19-year-old Maryam Zafar is neither.

Students walk out of schools in protest of gun violence

Students staged walkouts in Michigan, California, New York and Virginia, among others.

Questions are mounting about the law enforcement response to the Texas elementary school massacre

How a teen with an assault-style rifle walked into an unlocked Texas elementary school and stayed nearly an hour has emerged as a key question about the police response to the deadliest US school shooting in almost a decade.