Children Pay the Price for America’s Addiction to Gun Violence
kali9/Stock / Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the last two decades, more than 150,000 kids at more than 170 elementary, middle, and high schools have experienced a shooting on campus. A new report from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence suggests those kids, as well as those who encounter…
Florida Senate Passes Measure That Arms School Personnel in Response to Parkland Shooting
People crowd the entrance to the office of Florida Gov. Rick Scott with boxes of petitions for gun control reform in February.Gerald Herbert/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday night, the Republican-controlled Florida Senate narrowly passed a sweeping bill that implements gun restrictions, invests in mental health services, and arms some school…
A Philando Castile Charity Just Wiped Out School Lunch Debt in His Old District
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thousands of school kids in Minnesota can now eat school lunches without incurring more debt, thanks to Philando Castile. Castile was a popular school nutrition supervisor in St. Paul before he was shot and killed by police in July 2016. Since his death, which was…
How Novelist Luis Alberto Urrea Wore the Bastards Down
Joe Mazza/Brave-Lux Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Big Angel—patriarch of the De La Cruz clan, “El Jefe” emblazoned on his coffee mug, a man who once “could make the walls crack with his voice”—is dying of cancer. Relegated to a wheelchair, he realizes that “somebody was going to have to…
Elizabeth Warren Calls Betsy DeVos “The Worst Secretary Of Education This Country Has Ever Seen”
Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In her first year overseeing the Education Department, Secretary Betsy DeVos has been “a boon for for-profit colleges, student loan companies, and advocates of school privatization,” while harming public school students of all ages, according to a report released Thursday by two Massachusetts Democrats,…
Study: A Lot of Teens Are Sexting. Too Many Teens Are Sending Unsolicited Sexts.
PeopleImages/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Until now, sexting has been somewhat of a vague phenomenon, without much concrete data on how common it actually is in teen life. Experts have tried to pin down how many and how often teens participate in explicit text messaging, and have had a hard time…