by Beth Holmes | Oct 24, 2022 | News, Parent Issues
DNA kits are being sent out to the parents of Texas school students “in case of an emergency.” In 2021 after a school shooting in Santa Fe that killed eight high school students and two teachers, the Texas state legislature passed Senate Bill 2158. It’s a law...
by Beth Holmes | May 30, 2022 | News, Other, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Another school shooting makes the 23rd mass shooting with casualties in the United States this May, an average of almost one a day. A teenager with a gun went from class to class through Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, shooting children and staff....
by Beth Holmes | May 23, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
A chokehold caught on camera at a Texas school has put a national spotlight on the worst way to handle bullying. In a video that went viral Tuesday, Shaan Pritmani, a student at Coppell Middle School North is sitting at a cafeteria table when another boy standing...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 27, 2021 | News, Other, Teacher Issues
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas announced Monday that $123.3 million in federal relief money would be going to Texas schools. The money is from the Coronavirus Response and and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, the bill passed by Congress in 2020. It contained...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 16, 2021 | News, Teacher Issues
Teachers want masks in school districts across the country, as September looms. And they’re willing to fight for them in Republican-controlled states where mask mandates have been banned by law. So far, Arizona, Florida, Texas, Arkansas, and West Virginia have...
