School safety
District leaders say the new cameras are meant to make schools safer and will not result in an invasion of privacy.
‘This was a session of good, bad, and ugly,’ said one Democratic lawmaker.
“Districts have the option to choose,” Lee said.
The lawsuit alleges that a teacher at George Washington Carver Montessori School 87 encouraged students to attack a 7-year-old fellow student with a disability.
The vote comes one year after a mass school shooting in Nashville that prompted calls for gun restrictions
Across party lines, teachers want students to have more mental health support. Republican teachers were more likely to support armed police officers in school — and arming teachers.
‘People were damn mad,’ said one spectator who was asked to leave the chamber.
Nikki Snyder, the board member who introduced the measures, stormed out of the meeting in frustration after her colleagues rejected them.
Meanwhile, new attempts to tighten the state’s lax gun laws fizzle.
In a recent Colorado teachers union survey, 32% of respondents said they had experienced physical abuse by a student in the past two years.
Education Department officials aren’t planning to take advantage of the device’s major selling point: allowing students to walk through without removing their backpacks.
Two years after first introduced, lawmakers began considering bills aimed at preventing violence in Michigan schools.
Two bills filed in Springfield would let local school councils decide whether to keep school resource officers and would halt major changes to selective-enrollment schools.
So far, 3,000 of the roughly 4,100 school safety agents across NYC are wearing “bullet resistant” vests, NYPD officials said. The rollout caught many schools off guard.
Minimum teacher pay to rise from $42,000 to $44,500
The data suggests that school police officers, who were permanently brought back this fall, are ticketing and arresting students less frequently than before.
With another battle expected over vouchers, see what legislative leaders and advocates are saying.
New York City’s Board of Education Retirement System stands alone among the city’s five pension funds in not automatically enrolling eligible members in a pension plan.
Two other district staffers also lost their jobs: One for bringing a loaded gun on district property, and the other for assaulting a student.
The drop in suspensions likely reflects a combination of fewer students learning in person and a reticence among educators to remove students from the classroom.