Public Education
Teachers’ aide arrested following allegations of a relationship with student(Daily Caller) – An Oklahoma teachers’ aide has been arrested after allegedly having sex with a student, according to KSWO News. Ashley Waffle, a 22-year-old teachers’ aide, has been fired… Read More
Courts, Public Education
Parents sue district, football coach for negligence following alleged battery at New Mexico high schoolA New Mexico high school football coach charged with battery of a female student is now being sued by her parents, who also blame the district for hiring and… Read More
Public Education
High school teacher in North Carolina facing 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor for alleged distribution of child pornographyA high school teacher in North Carolina was suspended and is facing 10 felony counts after he willfully received and distributed child pornography, according to his arrest warrant. Read More
Public Education
High school teacher accused of making thousands of explicit videos of students arrested by feds(Daily Caller) – An Ohio teacher has been arrested by federal authorities after being accused of taking tens of thousands explicit videos of female high school students, according to the… Read More
Public Education
Award-winning Kansas teacher charged with multiple felony sex crimes against studentsA veteran middle school teacher lauded for creativity in the classroom is facing six felony counts of unlawful sexual relations with students. Keil Hileman, a 53-year-old former Kansas… Read More
Public Education
Shooting at Seattle high school leaves one student dead, suspect in custodyA student died after a shooting at a North Seattle high school Tuesday morning. A suspect was arrested on a city bus an hour after the incident,… Read More
Courts, Public Education
Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz receives 34 life sentences for 2018 school massacreThe shooter who took the lives of 17 students and staff members at a Florida high school four years ago was sentenced to 34 terms of life in prison this… Read More
Public Education
Latest school shooting leaves at least three dead at magnet school in St. LouisA school shooting at a St. Louis magnet school Monday morning has killed at least three, including the young gunman, while injuring and traumatizing others. Teacher Jean Kuczka,… Read More
Courts, Public Education
Parents sue Missouri school and staff members charged with shocking abuse of their autistic childParents of an autistic student are suing their child’s former school and some staff members in response to an alleged assault. The 13-year-old child was allegedly assaulted in… Read More
Public Education
Athletics director charged with sexual battery after history of inappropriate behavior with studentsAn Ohio school district’s athletic director is being sued by a former student he allegedly sexually abused. Chad E. Little was arrested on Sept. 20 and is facing… Read More
Public Education
Delaware to give DSHS $1M for school maps in safety effort(The Center Square) – Bolstering school security is part of a new initiative in Delaware. The state’s Emergency Management Agency announced Monday morning that nearly $1 million will… Read More
Public Education
Missouri school district to allow armed faculty members as part of safety enhancementsOne school district in southern Missouri is enhancing its safety protocols by allowing district staff to carry concealed firearms. Hurley R-1 School District began exploring the policy change in 2018… Read More
Public Education
Amid safety concerns, Omaha Public Schools commits $1.6 million to hire and retain School Resource OfficersOmaha Public Schools has committed $1.6 million to hire and retain School Resource Officers for 2022-23, bucking the national trend of limiting or defunding SROs entirely. “School… Read More
Culture
Texans encouraged to use iWatchTexas to report suspicious behavior(The Center Square) – Texans are being encouraged to use a free iWatch reporting system to alert local and state law enforcement about suspicious behaviors and activities that appear to… Read More
Culture, Public Education
From the penitentiary to the public school: Restorative Justice warps disciplineA criminal sentencing reform strategy with a dismal record of success has oddly been embraced by K-12 schools attempting to manage growing behavioral disruptions in the learning environment.  … Read More
Public Education
Two studies raise concerns about public school ‘serious violence incidents’(The Center Square) – At a time when school shootings are a concern for many Americans, serious violence incidents are also up in schools across the nation, reports two… Read More
Culture
Battery charges filed after alleged assault on pro-life teen canvassing in KC suburbA woman has been arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery after an alleged assault on a pro-life teen going door to door in support of the Kansas constitutional amendment… Read More
Public Education
Nearly $50 million going to Ohio schools for safety(The Center Square) – More than 1,000 Ohio schools in 81 of 88 counties will share $47 million in the state’s push to promote school safety, part of a response… Read More
Culture
Arson suspected in burning of 150-year-old church, in the latest act of violence following Supreme Court’s Roe overturningInvestigators suspect arson in the burning of West Virginia’s historic “Little Catholic Church on Irish Mountain” just after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.  Early Sunday… Read More
Culture
Attack on GOP office in Kansas widens the Left’s war on conservatives after RoeA brazen vandalism of a Republican headquarters in the heart of Kansas may signal a widening war against conservatives after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. In two separate incidents… Read More