DENVER, the United States, May 27 (Xinhua) -- A day of turmoil and grief gripped America's public schools Thursday, as thousands of students staged walkouts across the country to protest the Uvalde shooting in Texas that killed 19 elementary school children and two adults on Tuesday. Meanwhi...
"I am shocked and deeply saddened to hear about the school bus accident in Bastrop County today," Sen. John Cornyn of Texas wrote in a social mediapost. "Please join me in praying for these children, educators, and their families, especially those who have lost loved ones, du...
Texas, which has some of the most gun-friendly laws in the nation, has been the site of some of the deadliest shootings in the U.S. over the past five years. In 2018, a gunman killed 10 people at Santa Fe High School in the Houston area. A year before that, a gun...
right here in our capital city,” Cownie said at Monday’s City Council meeting. “This is a growing and alarming phenomenon in our country, and one we’ve seen too often in the past and again today in the city of Des Moines.” ...
Even with some students learning at home and others learning inside the classroom, the STAAR exam will go on in 2021. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced on Thursday, December 10th that the state's public school students will have to take the STAAR test in the Spring of 2021. The...
A young survivor of the massacre at a Texas elementary school says she covered herself with a friend’s blood and pretended to be dead while she waited for help to arrive.
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In the hours after news broke that 10 people had been killed by a gunman who opened fire Friday morning at Santa Fe High School in Texas, heartbreaking firsthand accounts began trickling in. In one of them, student Damon Rabon recalled the moments he and his fellow students fled for...
She’d recently bought a 2016 Range Rover, planned a trip to Europe next year, and expected to move to Texas after graduation, her sister Alivea Goncalves told NBC’s “Today” show. “She had everything going for her, absolutely everything,” her sister said. “She had her job ...
Nearly 1,600 miles (2,575 kilometers) apart, the cities of El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, have been united in grief and pain by a pair of shootings that left more 30 people dead.