PORT ARTHUR, Texas June 29 2019— The Port Arthur school board voted unanimously Thursday to bring back a police department for the district. Alton Baise will serve as the new chief of police for the Port Arthur Independent School District starting next year. It’s a decision the district is excited about. The decision will make […]
HARRISBURG PA June 28 2019 Pennsylvania lawmakers say they’ll authorize a second year of school and community security grants, a $60 million program spurred by last year’s Florida school shooting that killed 17 people. Republican lawmakers said Monday that a newly unveiled compromise budget package will keep the program intact for the coming school year. Officials […]
PROSPECT PARK NJ June 26 2019 — A time traditionally reserved for celebrating was instead spent demonstrating at the borough’s only public school. Students and staff checked off the last days of the school calendar with picket signs in their hands, as some paraded and shouted in protest over a move by the Board of Education […]
CHARLOTTE, NC June 25 2019 The Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) stopped fingerprinting new employees for about a year. CMS says it paused fingerprinting in July 2018 because it changed companies. They say that 3,533 employees were hired between July 2018 and June 2019. They weren’t fingerprinted and that thought concerns some in the community. “We got our […]
Gainesville FL June 25 2019 The University of Florida campus is about to get even safer with additional security equipment and resources. A plan to improve UF’s campus safety will cost the university about $30 million over the next five years, Vice President for Business Affairs Curtis Reynolds wrote in an email. The plan aims […]
Elizabethtown, PA June 23 2019 A 21-year-old man staying in international housing on Elizabethtown College’s campus was charged with raping and sexually assaulting a female Thursday, according to police. Alexis John Javier Dolotina, who is from the Philippines, allegedly assaulted the female around 1 p.m. at the Schreiber Quadrangle, on-campus housing, police said in charging […]
Eugene OR June 23 2019 The Eugene School Board unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday designating the district’s public safety office as a law enforcement agency, despite confusion and public outcry to postpone the vote. The resolution, which was amended during the meeting and approved by a 7-0 vote, would change the public safety office’s designation […]
NEW YORK NY June 22 2019 New York’s controversial public schools chancellor is calling it a seminal moment in history. The city has announced it’s scaling back police involvement with incidents that are considered “low level offenses” in schools. Talking through emotions instead of punishing students is now the focus in New York City school system. […]
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. June 22 2019— A private security officer’s bullet wounded a student in the deadly May 7 shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch, according to an arrest affidavit made public late Thursday afternoon. That officer is under investigation for reports that he fired on a responding Douglas County sheriff’s lieutenant in the chaos […]
Bluffton SC June 21 2019 A 17-year-old May River High School student was charged Saturday with raping a 15-year-old classmate in a bathroom during school hours at the end of last semester, according to the Bluffton Police Department. Isaiah Cash faces a charge of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under the age of 16, […]