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Education

US Education Announced Series Of Actions To Support Students’ Academic Recovery

WASHINGTON (July 5, 2022)---The Biden's  Administration announced a series of actions to support students' academic recovery and to ensure recovery efforts are meeting student, parent, and family needs Monday.  According to the administration, "these actions will help meet President Biden’s call for more schools to invest in strategies to accelerate…
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Governor Greg Abbott And Other Texas Elected Takes Steps To Increase School Safety And Mental Health Funding Following Uvalde Tragedy

TEXAS (June 29, 2022)---Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Speaker Dade Phelan, Senate Finance Committee Chair Joan Huffman, and House Appropriations Chair Dr. Greg Bonnen today announced the transfer of $105.5 million to support additional school safety and mental health initiatives through August 31, 2023. This additional funding will boost actions the State…
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crime

Uvalde Independent District Police Chief Placed On Administrative Leave

UVALDE, TX (June 22, 2022)---Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police Chief Pete Arredondo has been placed on administrative leave amid criticism of the law enforcement response to the worst school shooting in Texas history. Uvalde CISD Superintendent Hal Harrell announced the move in a news release Wednesday, just more than…
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Education

US Supreme Court Ruled Maine’s Exclusionary Public School’s Tuition Program, Must Include Religious Schools

WASHINGTON, DC (June 22, 2022)---the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Maine's tuition assistance program and in favor of religious schools eroding a "wall of separation between church and state." The Supreme Court ruled that States tuition programs... which provides funding for public school tuition  can not exclude religious schools.  The…
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American Education Growing Concern For Voting Parents, Could Spell More Trouble For Democrats

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 21, 2022)---The state of American education is a growing concern for voting parents this year, and that offers a potential edge to candidates hoping to appeal across partisan lines in November. — New polling released today by a top national charter school booster says education is now a more…
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Robb Elementary Shooting Update: Police Officer Armed With Rifle ‘Passed Up Chance To Shoot Uvalde Gunman’

UVALDE, TX (June 20, 2022)---A police officer armed with a rifle hesitated when he had an opportunity to shoot the Uvalde school gunman, it has been reported. The unidentified city officer, who was carrying an AR-15-style weapon, apparently paused because he feared hitting children, a senior sheriff's deputy told The…
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Senate’s Bipartisan Gun Agreement Includes Trump’s Call For A Top-To-Bottom Security Overhaul At Schools and Changing Mental Health

WASHINGTON, DC (June 14, 2022)--- The Republicans in the U.S. Senate wins with the bipartisan agreement.  The GOP advocated for mental health and safety schools.  Former President Donald J. Trump  speaking before the NRA Convention "called for "a top-to-bottom security overhaul at schools across this country" in addition to "drastically"…
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Texas Governor Abbott Order Teachers To Take Active-Shooter Training

TEXAS (June 7, 2022)---Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday ordered that active-shooter training be administered to all K–12 public-school districts in the state following the Uvalde elementary-school massacre in May in which an 18-year-old gunman slaughtered 19 children and two teachers. In a letter to Pete Blair, the executive director of the…
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