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During the pandemic shutdown, an attendance crisis caused an estimated 3 million children across the U.S. to go missing from school rosters. Amid a return to in-person learning, a local elementary school is experiencing that problem in the Las Vegas Valley, and administrators are going door to door to track down students who they say have vanished.
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — For many people hearing the terms “stop drop and roll,” or “duck and cover,” were common during drills at school.
Many people accepted these drills because our parents reinforced that the training was important.
Douglas Parisi is the director of training for Safe Defend and says parents need to do the same with school “intruder” drills.
A year after Texas lawmakers prohibited schools from suspending most young students, some Central Texas districts are still using the practice, including one that reported a surprisingly high 571 suspensions in the 2017-18 school year.
The girls attending the Houston ISD STEM magnet school, where a poster in the hallway proclaims "Sushi rolls, not gender roles," are hitting upon a stubborn problem in STEM, short for science, technology, engineering and math.
Texas requires schools to have emergency plans and conduct safety drills. But a lot of decisions about safety are left to school districts and charter schools.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — School shootings, online bullying and COVID-19 — they’re all topics some Central Texas counselors are discussing on a regular basis.
“I want them to feel seen, I want them to feel heard,” said Bobbi Sanchez, a high school counselor with Round Rock ISD. “We try to make them feel better.”
The University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) in San Antonio and the Karnes City Independent School District (ISD) have been awarded grants totaling more than $2.7 million from the U.S. Department of Education’s Mental Health Service Professionals Demonstration Program to train school counselors, social workers, psychologists, or other mental health professionals qualified to provide school-based mental health services.
The U.S. Department of Education announced it will distribute another $1.5 million in federal Project School Emergency Response to Violence (SERV) grant funds to the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District in Texas, where 19 children and two educators were killed in a mass shooting in 2022.