FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Nov 30 2021— When students returned to school this year, they brought with them pent up energy from a tough time in near isolation during the pandemic. Now, reports of fights, criminal batteries and fear of violence are becoming an unwelcome part of students’ full return to in-person education. While the violence […]
Urbana-Champaign IL Nov 30 2021 A student overwhelmed by schoolwork and engaging in self-harm. An international student missing home who has thought about suicide. Another student feeling pressure from the social aspects of college life. A community member demonstrating signs of paranoia and anxiety. All of those cases and several more came across the desk […]
Davis CA Nov 26 2021 The University of California, Davis has announced plans to undergo a “defunding” of its police department and will eliminate three vacant officer positions. According to a UC Davis press release, the university announced it will reallocate funding from the three eliminated officer positions to new positions. The university also said […]
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. Nov 26 2021— School board meetings across the country have become a culture war battleground, particularly over masks, during the past two years when the COVID-19 pandemic began. Metro Atlanta has been no exception. During a Gwinnett County Public Schools board meeting on Thursday night, two women were arrested and taken […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Nov 24 2021— A fight outside a school during dismissal has left one teen dead and another injured. Springfield police were called to Lanphier High School around 2:23 p.m. Wednesday where they discovered an 18-year-old male suffering from a stab wound to the chest, according to NPR Illinois. The student, whose identity […]
PATERSON NJ Nov 24 2021 A woman has filed a lawsuit against the Paterson Board of Education, saying a security guard at Rosa Parks High School repeatedly forced her to have sex with him in the auditorium when she was a student nine years ago. The woman, Amber Kitchings, said in her lawsuit that she […]
Asbury Park NJ Nov 24 2021 Two police officers discovered Asbury Park High School’s football coach, Nick Famularo, half-naked and trespassing on stadium grounds in New Jersey with a woman who was not his girlfriend early Saturday morning, according to a police report. And after the ordeal, they found human feces on a rug and vomit […]
Pittsburgh PA Nov 22 2021 Four male students at Brashear High School in Pittsburgh’s Beechview neighborhood were detained Thursday after authorities said they assaulted a school police officer. The incident happened while the officer was trying to break up a fight, said Pittsburgh Public Schools spokeswoman Ebony Pugh Medics were called to the school to examine […]
New York NY Nov 22 2021 United Federation of Teachers delegates passed a resolution opposing the transfer of school security duties from the NYPD to the Department of Education on Wednesday night. The measure prevailed with 75 percent of the tally at the labor group’s Delegate Assembly meeting. While members voted to maintain the NYPD’s purview, […]
AURORA, Colo. November 21 2021 Three juveniles are in the hospital after a shooting in the parking lot of Hinkley High School in Aurora, but the city’s police chief says a school security officer’s heroic actions may have kept the situation from being worse. “I do want to applaud his actions. He did a great job […]