BROWNSVILLE – Officers shot and killed an eighth-grade student in a middle school hallway after he refused to drop the air gun he had smuggled into school, police here said Wednesday.Jaime Gonzalez, 15, was pronounced dead at a local hospital at 9:15 a.m., about an hour and 15 minutes after police responded to a 911 call reporting an individual with a gun at Cummings Middle School in downtown    .. more …

~li~ Youth Family issues Sports That is what happened to Jackie Barden, who found out that her son, Ridge Barden , 16, died from a head injury after a football game in Phoenix, N.Y., when the school posted about the death on its Facebook page the next day.The Homer Central School District posted that the community was “deeply saddened and shares in the grief of the Phoenix School Community,” The    .. more …

Two of the most controversial aspects of Alabama ‘s stringent new immigration law were temporarily blocked Friday by the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals .For now, public schools are no longer required to check the immigration status of students enrolling for the first time in the state. And immigrants cannot be required to carry documents that prove their legal status.The appeals court is    .. more …

A high school student in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan accidentally wounded two other students after he made a shot from an assault rifle in a school, a local police spokesman said on Saturday.He said several policemen were invited to a school in the Tarumovsky district of Dagestan to deliver a lecture for children.”A senior class student was examining an assault rifle that was left    .. more …

~li~ Education Homosexuality Family issues Ethics/rights “There is no legitimate reason why any public school should be using an anti-LGBT filter,” said Joshua Block, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Project, according to The Washington Times.The ACLU alleges that Internet filters that block non-sexual gay websites are    .. more …

Mike Looney, superintendent of Williamson County Schools, recently sent letters to home-schooling families concerning compliance with the laws for home education.These letters present the need to review Tennessee’s state education laws; especially in light of the new additions, which took effect on July 1.The state Legislature on May 25 passed HB 1631, which made changes to the state’s existing    .. more …

(AFP)- 20 hours ago KAMPALA — Anti-landmine activists in western Uganda were stunned to discover a primary school using an unexploded mortar bomb as a bell, the group’s coordinator told AFP on Monday.”It was a big shock. When we arrived at the school we even found one of the students striking it,” Wilson Bwambale, coordinator of Anti-Mines Network Rwenzori, said.Bwambale said his team    .. more …

MARTINSVILLE, Ind. – State police say a teenage boy who has been shot at a Martinsville middle school is a student there, as is the teen suspect who has been taken into custody. Sgt. Curt Durnil says he does not know what prompted the shooting just after 7 a.m. Friday at Martinsville West Middle School. He says the suspect was suspended from school two days ago. Durnil says police believe only    .. more …

Booksavers receives donated books and recycles them in a variety of ways. Proceeds help to support the work of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), a relief and development agency working in the U.S. and around the world. Your order adds to this good work – thanks! EXPLANATION OF CONDITION: While some of our books are unused and free of markings, the majority are donated by schools and may have    .. more …

District uses GPS to track truant students Students with a tendency towards truancy in California’s Anaheim Union High School District are being assigned GPS units to make sure they’re going to school on time, according to The Orange County Register. The GPS units are the size of a (chunky) cellphone and are developed by Dallas-based AIM Truancy Solutions, which operates in more than 100    .. more …