Uvalde students go back to school for 1st time since attack
2 years, 3 months ago

Uvalde students go back to school for 1st time since attack

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Gilbert Mata woke up excited Tuesday for the first day of school since a gunman’s bullet tore through his leg three months ago in a fourth grade classroom in Uvalde. “There’s a certain time he can get his phone out and text us he’s OK,” she said after walking him into a new school, Flores Elementary, and dropping him off behind doors with new locks. Now I feel better.’” Outside Uvalde Elementary, teachers in matching turquoise shirts emblazoned with “Together We Rise & Together We Are Better” gently led students through a newly installed 8-foot fence and past a state trooper standing outside the front entrance. “I wasn’t ready for him to go back to school, but he says he was,” Martinez said.

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16 Uvalde fourth graders waited an hour with wounded teacher
2 years, 3 months ago

16 Uvalde fourth graders waited an hour with wounded teacher

Associated Press  

UVALDE, Texas — Elsa Avila slid to her phone, terrified as she held the bleeding side of her abdomen and tried to stay calm for her students. In a text to her family that she meant to send to fellow Uvalde teachers, she wrote: “I’m shot.” For the first time in 30 years, Avila will not be going back to …

Uvalde children return to school after 21 students and teachers were slaughtered. But some kids refuse to go back to classrooms
2 years, 3 months ago

Uvalde children return to school after 21 students and teachers were slaughtered. But some kids refuse to go back to classrooms

CNN  

CNN — Zayon Martinez spent his final hour of second grade hiding under a desk while bullets flew through Robb Elementary School. “We’re not going back to that campus,” Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Hal Harrell said in June. “I don’t feel like everything has been done to protect our children.” A teacher in Uvalde, Texas, hugs a student …

US students in Uvalde, Texas back at school amid grief and fear
2 years, 3 months ago

US students in Uvalde, Texas back at school amid grief and fear

Al Jazeera  

Robb Elementary School where the mass shooting that took the lives of 21 people happened, is not reopening. Students in Uvalde, Texas have returned to school amid heavy security, three months after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in their fourth-grade classrooms, in a mass shooting that sent shockwaves around the United States. And although school started weeks …

Broken trust still felt in Uvalde as school year approaches
2 years, 3 months ago

Broken trust still felt in Uvalde as school year approaches

Associated Press  

UVALDE, Texas — Even though Uvalde’s school police chief is now gone, Mario Jimenez doesn’t feel any safer about sending his 10-year-old son back to class for the first time since his teacher was shot at Robb Elementary School. The firing of embattled Uvalde school Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who for more than 70 minutes during the May 24 massacre …

Uvalde school police chief fired for response to shooting
2 years, 3 months ago

Uvalde school police chief fired for response to shooting

Associated Press  

UVALDE, Texas — The Uvalde school district has fired police chief Pete Arredondo under mounting pressure in the grieving Texas town to punish officers for hesitating for over an hour to storm a classroom and take down the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers In a unanimous vote Wednesday evening, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s board of …

Outcry after Uvalde pressures schools to keep kids safe
2 years, 5 months ago

Outcry after Uvalde pressures schools to keep kids safe

Associated Press  

UVALDE, Texas — When the shooting began at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Mario Jimenez’s son was in the classroom next door. “How are you going to make sure I don’t have to spend 77 minutes bleeding out on the school floor like my little sister did?” At the same meeting, Rachel Martinez declared herself unwilling to send her daughter, …

Frequent lockdowns may have contributed to Uvalde tragedy
2 years, 5 months ago

Frequent lockdowns may have contributed to Uvalde tragedy

Associated Press  

UVALDE, Texas — Teachers and students at Robb Elementary School knew the safety protocols when an 18-year-old with an AR-15 style rifle entered the building in May. But in South Texas, another unique kind of classroom lockdown occurs along the state’s 1,200-mile southern border: hunkering down because Border Patrol agents or state police are chasing migrants who are trying to …

Uvalde school shooting video: Surveillance footage fuels scrutiny over delayed law enforcement response
2 years, 5 months ago

Uvalde school shooting video: Surveillance footage fuels scrutiny over delayed law enforcement response

CNN  

CNN — Surveillance video of law enforcement’s response during the Uvalde school massacre gives the clearest account yet of how officers waited outside an elementary classroom as the gunman continued firing, killing 21 students and teachers on May 24. But state Rep. Joe Moody, one of three House Investigative Committee members looking into the law enforcement response to the massacre, …

A dad’s anguish outside Texas school while shooting unfolded
2 years, 6 months ago

A dad’s anguish outside Texas school while shooting unfolded

Associated Press  

UVALDE, Texas — Javier Cazares raced to his daughter’s school when he heard there was a shooting, leaving his truck running with the door open as he ran into the school yard. Authorities initially said Ramos exchanged fire with a school police officer before entering the building, but they later said the officer was not actually on campus and “sped” …

Video shows children fleeing from classroom window during Uvalde school shooting
2 years, 6 months ago

Video shows children fleeing from classroom window during Uvalde school shooting

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. On Monday, just days after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos …

Uvalde school shooter was in school for up to an hour before law enforcement broke into room where he was barricaded and killed him
2 years, 7 months ago

Uvalde school shooter was in school for up to an hour before law enforcement broke into room where he was barricaded and killed him

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Updates on this story can be found here. “It’s going to be within, like 40 minutes or something, an hour,” Texas Department of Public Safety director Steven McCraw told CNN’s Ed Lavandera at a news conference. The shooter barricaded himself inside adjoining classrooms and opened fire on the children and two teachers, Olivarez said, calling the act “complete …

Hurricane Ida's Impact On Students Could Be Worse Than Katrina, Expert Says
3 years, 3 months ago

Hurricane Ida's Impact On Students Could Be Worse Than Katrina, Expert Says

NPR  

Hurricane Ida's Impact On Students Could Be Worse Than Katrina, Expert Says Enlarge this image toggle caption Brandon Bell/Getty Images Brandon Bell/Getty Images Hurricane Ida has closed schools for more than 250,000 students across Louisiana, according to a tally by NPR. But as member station WWNO reports, virtual learning isn't an option for many students right now: The hurricane caused …

Pandemic spurs boom in virtual offerings for US schools
3 years, 4 months ago

Pandemic spurs boom in virtual offerings for US schools

Associated Press  

Despite the challenges of distance learning during the pandemic, public school systems across the U.S. are setting up virtual academies in growing numbers to accommodate families who feel remote instruction works best for their children. In the new school year, 110 of the commonwealth’s 132 school divisions will use Virtual Virginia, a state-operated K-12 program, to provide some or all …

‘Beyond the reach of schools’: Remote teaching making it harder to identify students who need extra help
4 years, 3 months ago

‘Beyond the reach of schools’: Remote teaching making it harder to identify students who need extra help

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It’s hard to know what their struggles are, …

11 Remote Learning Truths From Parents Whose Kids Have Started School
4 years, 3 months ago

11 Remote Learning Truths From Parents Whose Kids Have Started School

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Many kids across the country are starting the school year from the confines of their own homes, as both large school districts and individual parents are keeping students remote this fall. Teachers are doing their best, but they are ‘building the plane while flying it.’ Lots of grace, patience and walking away to breathe.” ― name withheld …

Amid virus, uncertainty, parents decide how to school kids
4 years, 4 months ago

Amid virus, uncertainty, parents decide how to school kids

Associated Press  

Joshua Claybourn is leaning toward sending his kindergarten daughter to in-person classes at a private school next month. “We’re being forced to make impossible decisions.” Across the country, chaos and disarray have marked the start of the school year as families await directives from district officials and, where they have a choice, make agonizing decisions over whether to enroll their …

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