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[ad_1] CNN  —  Richneck Elementary School in Virginia will install walk-through metal detectors after officials were alerted last week that a 6-year-old student who allegedly shot his teacher might have had a weapon but failed to find it after a search. Before last week’s shooting of a first-grade teacher, school …

[ad_1] CNN  —  The Purdue Board of Trustees has issued a formal reprimand to Purdue University Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon in response to a racist comment he made during a commencement ceremony earlier this month, according to a statement from the board’s chairman. Faculty and students alike have called for …

[ad_1] CNN  —  A Virginia school superintendent was fired Tuesday, a day after a report from the state accused him of lying about a sexual assault involving a student in May 2021. The special grand jury report, conducted by the office of Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, also criticized former …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Sitting in the back of a packed room in the Hamilton County Schools administration complex, Clara fought the urge to leave. She had taken the day off from her factory job to be there but was nervous to see a crowd of people supporting a board member …

[ad_1] CNN  —  The last 24 hours have felt like a nightmare for University of Virginia head coach Tony Elliott, the entire football team and campus, the coach said Tuesday during a news conference. “I’m ready for somebody to pinch me and wake me up and say this didn’t happen,” …

[ad_1] CNN  —  The 22-year-old University of Virginia student suspected of killing three football players and wounding two other people was facing school disciplinary action after UVA officials learned he failed to disclose his conviction last year on a misdemeanor concealed weapons charge, a school spokesperson says. Christopher Darnell Jones …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Maryland law enforcement and school district officials are investigating why an elementary school teacher made unfounded claims that multiple stabbings occurred at the school before walking 27 fifth-graders off campus to a local café. Shortly before 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, deputies received a call about multiple stabbings …

[ad_1] Editor’s Note: This roundup is part of the CNN Opinion series “America’s Future Starts Now,” in which people share how they have been affected by the biggest issues facing the nation and experts offer their proposed solutions. The views expressed in these commentaries are the authors’ own. Read more …

[ad_1] CNN  —  The Uvalde school board unanimously accepted the retirement of superintendent Hal Harrell on Wednesday, nearly five months after one of the deadliest mass school shootings in US history at an elementary school in the Texas district. Harrell had announced last week he’d step aside amid continued backlash …

[ad_1] Uvalde, Texas CNN  —  Hal Harrell, superintendent of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, announced his retirement Monday, according to a Facebook post by his wife, Donna Goates Harrell. “I am truly grateful for your support and well wishes. My decision to retire has not been made lightly and …