Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Elementary School

6-year-old brings handgun to Va. elementary school, police say; mother charged

NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk police charged the mother of a 6-year-old whom police said brought a handgun to Little Creek Elementary School on Thursday.

Tribune News Service

Brickbat: OK, Everyone Is Welcome

Centennial Elementary School in Washington has backed off a plan to create a "safe space" club open only to "black, indigenous and people of color" students. After the club was announced, several white students expressed an interest in joining. Meanwhile, some parents said the idea of a racially segregated club…

Reason

Do elementary school students do better when taught by teachers of the same race or ethnicity? New research finds: Not that much

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The Conversation

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Editorial: Students who endured two school shootings are a testament to America's failure

A sobering footnote to Monday’s mass shooting at Michigan State University is not about the three dead victims but rather some of the survivors — including a college student who, 10 years ago, was among the children who lived through the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut that took…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: In light of Richneck shooting, treat complaints with urgency

While the investigation into the Jan. 6 shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News continues, allegations against the school division allege an escalating pattern of disruptive behavior before the 6-year-old shot 25-year-old first-grade teacher Abigail Zwerner.

Tribune News Service

Police issue citations as activists attempt to enter shuttered Woodlawn school housing newly arrived immigrants

The city’s plans to transform the shuttered James Wadsworth Elementary School into a temporary shelter for migrants seeking asylum has been met with controversy in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood.

Chicago Sun-Times

Boy, 6, who shot teacher in classroom had 'history of violent behaviour at school'

Lawyers for teacher Abby Zwerner, 25, accuse Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, US, of failing to act despite being told the student had a gun in his backpack

Daily Mirror

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Elementary school principal and gym teacher fired for having sex on campus as his wife filmed them

‘Totality of the evidence tends to support Mr Charles’s claim of an inappropriate relationship,’ outside investigators say in report

The Independent UK

Boy, 5, found with gun magazine and ammunition in backpack at primary school

Police were called to Porter Elementary School in New York, US, on Monday after staff discovered a 5-year-old boy had a gun magazine and ammunition in his backpack

Daily Mirror

Parents at school where boy, 6, shot teacher prepare to sue

The families of two students at a Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old shot his teacher have filed notices of potential legal action against the school system

The Independent UK

First-grade student who shot teacher in US school allegedly tried to choke another teacher

Teacher Abby Zwerner was seriously injured when she was shot by a six-year-old boy at Richneck Elementary School on January 6

Irish Mirror

Boy, 6, who shot teacher tried to choke colleague 'until she couldn't breath'

Abby Zwerner, a teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia, US, was shot at a reading table in her classroom after a 6-year-old boy stashed a gun into his backpack

Daily Mirror

‘Parents’ Bill of Rights’ clears final hurdle, set for Tuesday floor vote in NC Senate

RALEIGH, N.C. — The "Parents’ Bill of Rights" cleared a final hurdle Monday, setting up an expected floor vote Tuesday for the controversial legislation that would ban topics like gender identity and sexuality from being taught in most elementary school classrooms in North Carolina, and potentially force teachers to out…

Tribune News Service

New revelations from Richneck: Claim contends assistant principal failed to react to several warnings about 6-year-old

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The year before a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher at Richneck Elementary School, he choked another teacher “until she couldn’t breathe,” a pending claim against the Newport News school division contends.

Tribune News Service

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Belfast Live

St Comgall's visited by Belfast Mayor following multi-million pound transformation

The site had fallen into disrepair since the Elementary School closed in the mid-1990s

Chicago Sun-Times

These are some of the people in line to profit from Lightfoot’s Bally’s casino deal

Among them: the family of the woman chairing the mayor’s reelection campaign fund, contractors that are Lightfoot financial backers and two clout-heavy real estate investors whose children attended the Catholic elementary school where Lightfoot’s daughter was a student.

Chicago Sun-Times

City opens temporary shelter for asylum seekers in Woodlawn despite effort to block bus moving them

At least 3 busloads of recently arrived immigrants were dropped off at a once-shuttered South Side school that has been transformed into a shelter. Two protesters tried to stop a bus from reaching the former Wadsworth Elementary School.

Tribune News Service

Virginia elementary school's principal wasn’t told of reports 6-year-old had gun, attorney says

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The lawyer for the former principal of Richneck Elementary School said Thursday that her client was never told the 6-year-old who shot his first-grade teacher may have had a gun at school that day.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Lawyer: Principal unaware boy had gun before teacher shot

The former principal of the Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old shot his teacher was not aware of reports that the student had a gun before the shooting occurred

Irish Mirror

US school where six-year-old shot his teacher set to reopen

First-grade teacher Abby Zwerner was hospitalised for nearly two weeks but is now recovering at home

The Independent UK

School where 6-year-old shot his teacher set to reopen

Students and teachers returning to the Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher will see visible signs of stepped-up security

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Showa-era schoolhouses to be exhibited at 2025 Osaka Expo

Two schoolhouses built in the Showa era (1926-89) in Kyoto and Nara prefectures will be exhibited at the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, according to the Japan Association for the International Exposition, which manages the Expo.

Irish Mirror

Warnings boy had gun were ignored before he shot teacher at Virginia elementary school

Teacher Abigail Zwerner, 25, was left with serious injuries after she was shot at Richneck Elementary School on January 6

Daily Mirror

Teacher who was shot by boy, 6, sent chilling warning text an hour before attack

Abigail Zwerner, 25, text a loved one complaining administrator's at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News weren't helping after she was concerned with a 6-year-old boy's behaviour

Evening Standard

School shooting chief booted out of office after authorities ‘ignored gun warnings’

Abigail Zwerner was “shot purposely” in front of other students at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News

1 … 12 13 14 15

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Michigan State University

Richneck Elementary School

Chicago Transit Authority

20 stories

Oak Street

17 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.