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PARKLAND STUDENTS — They came from all over Virginia, battling gray weather and buckets of rain, to see the faces of a student-driven movement that shows few signs of stopping.

They came by the hundreds, young people and older ones — at least a third of the attendees were parents, judging by a show of hands — to hear first-person testimonies from the survivors of the They came to learn how they might be involved in ending gun violence. In a few cases, they came to protest.

The message they got from the speakers at this traveling town hall, over and over, was this: Vote. As it matures over the course of its through the United States this summer, the March for Our Lives movement’s broad goal of ending gun violence is increasingly focused on voting, one of the most essential of all civic responsibilities. ()

National News

DUNCAN — Arne Duncan, Obama’s Former Secretary of Education, Just Wrote a Memoir. Here Are 7 Key Highlights (Read at The74Million.org)

SCHOOL SAFETY — U.S. schools implement new safety measures in wake of recent mass shootings ()

District and State News

CALIFORNIA — After quarter century of rapid expansion, charter school growth slowing in California ()

FLORIDA — Runcie reverses plan for metal detectors at Stoneman Douglas ahead of new school year ()

ILLINOIS — Student who supports gun rights sues school over protest ()

FLORIDA — It’s framer vs. framer in Florida’s education equity lawsuit ()

NEVADA — AG: Nevada education department didn’t violate open meeting law ()

NEW YORK —State stiffed city schools $7 million ()

ILLINOIS — School sex-ed classes to teach about assault, consent under new state law ()

NEVADA — Workers: Morale of Clark County schools’ support staff ‘tanked’ ()

NEW YORK — EXCLUSIVE: Sex probes shrink in city schools under Mayor de Blasio, even as number of staffers grows ()

GEORGIA — Gwinnett schools to start girls flag football program ()

CALIFORNIA — Opinion: Forget the lies in the state schools superintendent’s race ()

PENNSYLVANIA — Opinion: Cutting through the Wolf/Wagner school-funding war | John Baer (

Think Pieces

AP CLASSES — More students are taking AP exams, but researchers don’t know if that helps them ()

DUNCAN — Review: In Arne Duncan’s New Memoir, Reflections on Putting Kids First, the State of Our Union, and the Lies We Tell About Our Schools (Read at The74Million.org)

SCHOOL SAFETY — OPINION: Teachers with guns — it might be even worse than you think ()

Quote of the Day

“I know a lot of people thought the movement was going to die a long time ago. But we’re still here. We’re still traveling.” —Ramon Contreras, a New York-based youth advocate, on the “March for Our Lives'” movement to get young people to vote, driven by student survivors of February’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. ()

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