The outpouring of support for superintendent finalist Vito Perrone has solidified the former high school principal’s desire to take the reins at Easthampton Public Schools, more than four days after he said the school board rescinded the offer when he used the word “ladies” in an email greeting to two female board members during contract negotiations.
Even with all 225 students, most staff members and a handful of parents inside, the Nellie Stone Johnson Community School's gymnasium was far from packed during a recent assembly. Yet the space buzzed with the kids' excited whispers.
“They’re very difficult to build a pattern behind. It’s not like criminal activity, which you can target and prevent through law enforcement. This is harder,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw said.
Abby Zwerner, a 25-year-old teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia was shot in the hand and chest on Jan. 6 as she sat at a reading table in her classroom. She spent nearly two weeks in the hospital and has had four surgeries since the shooting.
For public schools, the bill restricts which bathrooms students can use and puts limits on discussing gender and sexuality. It also allows teachers to refer to students by their gender assigned at birth.
As superintendent of the Sto-Rox School District, Ms. Van Fossan needs enough staff to usher students and visitors through metal detectors every day and conduct background checks for visitors. An adequate number of guards must be positioned on each floor of the district’s school buildings for extra security.
A Michigan college has ended its partnership with a Florida charter school whose principal was forced to resign after a parent complained sixth graders were exposed to pornography during a lesson on Renaissance art that included Michelangelo’s David sculpture.
Days after a Virginia school district superintendent proposed closing school libraries to address budgetary concerns, he has also ordered the removal of 14 books from school libraries, including two by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison.
Fake threats of violence were made to several school districts in New York on Thursday morning, causing emergency responses from law enforcement and adding to a disturbing trend happening across the nation.
The authors of bills in both legislative chambers say their bills’ aim is simple: keeping sexually explicit content off school bookshelves. But opponents say the legislation is vague and broad enough to wreak havoc.
“I never had an easy time teaching. I was a gay man in the rural south,” one teacher said. “But I felt called to do it, because I know that students need to see people who look like them, who come from where they come from.”
It is not only helping to reduce mental health stigma, but it is also stepping up to support, coach and connect young people with its many self-help applications.
While the basics are important, the argument goes, there are other things schools should focus on. That may be true, but it need not be so binary. Basic early literacy and numeracy skills are the foundation on which much other success is built.
The House voted Wednesday afternoon to give preliminary approval to H.483, a bill that would strengthen anti-discrimination measures, place a moratorium on new independent school approvals, and make it nearly impossible for independent schools to reject publicly tuitioned students.
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