COLUMBUS, OH (WOIO) – Monday, Gov. John R. Kasich urged the Ohio General Assembly and Ohio Department of Education to work together on legislation providing a one-time increase in the number of days that schools can take off because of snow or bad weather. Kasich said a one-time increase of just a few days is […]
The school where 12 students and a teacher were killed and 26 students were injured, just recently had its lockdown lifted after four hours. LITTLETON, Colo. — Police were investigating a threat at Columbine High School shortly after 11 a.m. on Thursday, Jefferson County Public Schools said. No injuries or obvious danger were […]
CLEVELAND – More than 300 schools were closed or on a delay Friday morning. The Cleveland Metropolitan School District made the decision early to close. NewsChannel5 received a written statement explaining the protocol used to close CMSD: 1. We use a threshold of “when the wind combines with the temperature to make it feel […]
The school was about to remain open with classes continuing as one person had been arrested in connection with the shooting. (CNN) — [Breaking news update, posted at 2:42 p.m. ET] One person was killed in Tuesday’s shooting at an electrical engineering building at Purdue University, campus police Chief John Cox told reporters. […]
Police are looking for the shooting as both victims are taken to a nearby hospital. LOGAN – January 17, 2014 (WPVI) — Two students were shot inside a school in the Logan section of Philadelphia on Friday afternoon. The shooting happened at the Delaware Valley Charter School located at 5201 Old York Road shortly after […]
EUCLID, OH (WOIO) – In June of 2014, St. John of the Cross Parish will close its school and enter into a partnership with Ss. Robert & William Parish to support one school, commencing in the 2014-2015 school year. The school will be located at the current Ss. Robert & William site, 351 East […]
Students who participated had to choose between two words – “Ignorant” and “Educated” while going through pictures of black men going from dark to light. The black community is no stranger to the deep-seated issues of colorism, so the results of a new study highlighting color bias are not surprising. Professors at San […]
News of the incident were first reported on social media, including the apprehension of the suspect. (CNN) — Two children were taken to a hospital after a report of a shooting at Berrendo Middle School in Roswell, New Mexico, a spokeswoman for the hospital said Tuesday. They were taken to Eastern New Mexico […]
BRUNSWICK, OH (WOIO) – Brunswick School Superintendent Michael Mayell tells 19 Action News counselors will be at Brunswick High School all week. They will be able to help students deal with the recent suicides of two students – Mathew Homyk and Anthony Gill. Homyk was a freshman and Gill had completed his graduation requirements before Thanksgiving, […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – For four years, more than a dozen students from Saint Joseph Academy have given up their lunch time twice a week to travel to Douglas MacArthur Girls’ Leadership Academy (pre-K through 8th grade) in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District to tutor the grade school and middle school students in such […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Students in Cleveland schools aren’t doing very well, according to the National Assessment of Educational Process. The NAEP report, out Thursday, shows how well CMSD students did on tests in February and March of 2013, last school year. Out of 21 large city districts in the nation, Cleveland students scores came in second […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Breaking away with the traditional, Franklin D. Roosevelt Academy has a pool table in the center of its school. In fact, it a game room. They are also building learning stations, computer rooms and adding to its library. They are sharing the space with the Boys and Girls Clubs. Its Director of operations Allen […]