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A Knoxville PD officer on duty at the Austin-East Magnet High School responded to a report of someone armed on school grounds and was shot.  “One male was pronounced deceased at the scene while another was detained for further investigation,” police said. Two people were shot – a student and …

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will launch a four-year “emergency” plan to tackle the looming illiteracy crisis, the Times reported on Sunday. The problem appears to be so dire it has become the prime minister’s second top priority after the vaccination campaign, and will remain the government’s focus until at least …

The suit, which was filed this week in Los Angeles County Superior Court, accuses the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) of breaching its responsibility to students by letting teachers dictate when schools shuttered amid Covid-19 pandemic can reopen. The other defendants, the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) union and …

Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence and the third US president, but he also owned slaves – so Waukegan decided to take his name off a middle school last year, amid the George Floyd protests across the US. The proposal to rename the school against the country’s …

Located on the outskirts of Washington, DC, the Loudoun County Public School District is one of the wealthiest in the nation, with the average household there pulling in $136,000 per year. It’s also emerged lately as a hotbed of Critical Race Theory (CRT) – a set of ideas that puts …

An angry mob gathers outside a school to demand the sacking of a teacher who’d shown his class a picture of the Prophet Mohammed. There is chanting and a Muslim scholar addresses the crowd. The police are called and they try to get people to disperse. Such a scene immediately …

Speaking on Friday, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick told Sky News that the Department for Education had been in touch with the school and the local council, and an investigation into the teacher’s conduct was the right way to proceed.  However, Jenrick said he was “disturbed” by events on Thursday, when …

Local residents and parents descended on the Yorkshire grammar school on Thursday despite headmaster Gary Kibble writing a “sincere and full apology” to those offended by a picture allegedly shown in a religious studies lesson, which Kibble labelled “completely inappropriate.”  The gathering began around 7:30am on Thursday at the non-fee-paying …

In an integrated human anatomy class for those looking to graduate UPenn’s nursing program, students must go through a mock examination of an imaginary patient. One of the requirements for this exam is that the student introduce themselves with their “preferred pronouns” and then get the preferred pronouns of the …

It’s not just parents who are breathing a collective sigh of relief to see children heading back to school today. Prime Minister Johnson has declared that ‘getting our young people back into the classroom’ is a sign that the UK can ‘start moving closer to normality.’  And it seems, at long …