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Philadelphia is giving high schoolers more time to sleep. Will it have unintended consequences?

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Beginning this fall, the Philadelphia School District is shifting its high school start times to a mostly universal 9 a.m., reflecting a national movement to improve academic outcomes by allowing teens more sleep.

Police: Student, 12, arrested after gun goes off at school

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12-year-old boy was arrested after he showed off a handgun in his backpack to classmates and it fired into a table at a Southern California middle school, authorities said. No one was hurt.

Justice Department reaches $127.5M settlement with Parkland school shooting victims

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Federal officials confirmed the multimillion-dollar settlement over the FBI's failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack.

In nationwide trend, one state’s K-12 enrollment still down after pandemic

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Combined enrollment in Ohio's traditional district and charter schools fell by about 30,000 students last year out of more than 1.7 million students in Ohio's public schools.

Police: Man entered Pittsburgh-area elementary school, recorded child in girls’ bathroom

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A man lied his way into Ramsey Elementary School in Monroeville on Tuesday and recorded a child on his cellphone as she used the girls' restroom, according to charges filed by Monroeville police.

Teacher and student shot outside Dorchester school

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Preliminary investigation indicated that the student and teacher were in the parking lot preparing for a school event when someone opened fire on them.

Do masks in school affect kids’ speech and social skills?

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Masks can obscure a smile, muffle a voice, and make lip reading impossible. But those are minor obstacles to human interaction, says Lindsay Yazzolino, who is blind.

Outrage came after ‘slave auction’ at NC school. Here’s what the district plans to do.

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Superintendent Anthony Jackson proposed a plan to give more teeth to existing policies surrounding student conduct and discrimination, establish support systems for students, train the district’s staff and hire new personnel.

Minnesota students and teachers sound alarm bells as school board approves anti-LGBTQ+ presentation

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A Minnesota school board has said it will hear a presentation from “the other side” after a talk was given in January by OutFront Minnesota, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group.

Why turnover of superintendents is high in one small state this year

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“I’ve been a superintendent for 17 years in Vermont and it seemed like it was time to choose my personal life,” said Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union Superintendent Jeanne Collins. “While we’ve always had a 24/7 job, during COVID it really meant 24/7.”

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