EduClips: Mass Shooting at Florida High School; Stalled Chancellor Search in NYC — and More Must-Reads From America’s 15 Biggest School Districts
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EduClips is a roundup of the day’s top education headlines from America’s largest school districts, where more than 4 million students across eight states attend class every day. Read previous EduClips installments here. Get the day’s top school and policy news delivered straight to your inbox by signing up for the
Top Story
SCHOOL SHOOTING — What is known about the Valentine’s Day slayings at a South Florida high school suggests the carnage was planned with chilling precision: The alleged shooter — armed with an assault-style weapon — pulled a fire alarm and waited as his victims began pouring into the halls.
What remained to be unraveled Thursday was what drove the teenage suspect, Nikolas Cruz, to bring his rage to a school he once attended and claim the lives of students he once called classmates — in what would become the nation’s second deadliest public school shooting, with a toll of at least 17 lives. ()
National News
MORE ON FLORIDA SCHOOL SHOOTING:
The victims of the Douglas High mass shooting ()
Florida shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz: Guns, depression and a life in trouble ()
Florida school shooting: Security, training ‘not enough’ to stop tragedy ()
Florida School Shooting: Superintendent ‘Never Thought’ He’d See Such Tragedy in His District ()
Florida lawmakers repeatedly denied pleas for more school-safety money ()
DACA — As DACA Deadline Looms, Young Immigrants Plan for the Unknown ()
ABSENTEEISM — Students can’t learn if they don’t show up at school ()
FLU EPIDEMIC — Schools in Texas, Massachusetts, Oklahoma & Tennessee Mourn Educators (Read at The74Million.org)
DEVOS — DeVos Dogged by Failures to Disclose ()
TECHNOLOGY — Teachers want to prepare students for the jobs of the future — but feel stymied ()
District and State News
NEW YORK — Months of Searching Still Hasn’t Found New Schools Chancellor ()
TEXAS — Paxton: Three Texas school districts illegally endorsed politicians ()
ILLINOIS — Old Idea Could Change School Funding Dollars ()
NEVADA — CCSD Trustee says school police need more funding to protect students ()
CALIFORNIA — With support instead of punishment, a California school district works to improve special education ()
PENNSYLVANIA — Protesters decry Philly district’s ‘overreach’ with charters ()
NEW YORK — Brooklyn school therapist sues principal for targeting her for being an Orthodox Jew ()
CALIFORNIA — Enrollment season: Bay Area parents pin hopes on coveted schools’ lotteries ()
Think Pieces
SCHOOL SHOOTINGS — Why security measures won’t stop school shootings ()
DACA — Study finds DACA encourages undocumented kids to stay in school, as Congress ponders their future ()
TEACHER VACANCIES — Brookings: New Revelations About Teacher Vacancies — and Which Students Go to Those Schools (Read at The74Million.org)
ECONOMY — OPINION: Here’s an economic engine that powers communities: School ()
CHARTERS — Manno: Return of the Jedi — Progressive K-12 Reformers Strike Back in Defense of Charter Schools (Read at The74Million.org)
BLACK PANTHER — Black Panther Proves That Our Kids Need More Black Superheroes, Both on the Screen and in the Classroom ()
Quote of the Day
“I think everyone in this school had it in the back of their mind that if anyone was supposed to do it, it was most likely gonna be him.” —Dakota Mutchler, who went to middle school with Nikolas Cruz, 19, suspected of killing 17 people at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. ()
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