School News

• Paris Hilton says it was 'traumatic' to discuss school abuse with mom Kathy but healed from therapy
  
  Paris, 40, first opened up about the physical and psychological abuse that she endured at Provo Canyon Boarding School in Utah in her 2020 YouTube documentary, This is Paris.
  Daily Mail.  Monday, 24 Jan 2022.
• Conservative minister resigns in anger over Covid fraud
  
  Lord Agnew says the government had made "schoolboy errors" when handing Covid loans to business.
  BBC News.  Monday, 24 Jan 2022.
• 13-year-old boy dies from suspected fentanyl overdose death while at school, raising alarm
  
  A Connecticut school continued to decontaminate the building after a 13-year-old student died after he reportedly ingested fentanyl at the school last week
  Fox News.  Monday, 24 Jan 2022.
• Justices to hear challenge to race in college admissions
  
  The court said Monday it'll take up lawsuits claiming Harvard, a private institution, and the University of North Carolina, a state school, discriminate against Asian American applicants.
  ABC News.  Monday, 24 Jan 2022.
• Some schools turn to COVID testing to keep kids in the classroom amid spike in infections
  
  Amid a spike in coronavirus cases, schools across the U.S. are turning to COVID testing to try to keep kids in the classroom. ...
  CBS News.  Monday, 24 Jan 2022.
• Witness 'saw six-year-old Rikki Neave with his killer on the day he was murdered,' court hears
  
  School cleaner Sylvia Clary said she saw Rikki with then 13-year-old James Watson before he was strangled near his Peterborough home on November 28, 1994, and today gave evidence.
  Daily Mail.  Monday, 24 Jan 2022.
• Our Biggest Takeaway From Pandemic-Era Schooling? Relationships Matter
  
  Our most important innovation through Covid is something that every school can do right now.
  Forbes.  Monday, 24 Jan 2022.
• Virginia school districts sue Youngkin over order giving parents choice on COVID-19 masks in class
  
  Youngkin issued an executive order earlier this month requiring an opt out to any school mask mandates, as the U.S. enters the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Fox News.  Monday, 24 Jan 2022.
• Virginia school districts sue over Youngkin order making masks optional
  
  The school boards claim the governor's executive order conflicts with current state law.
  CBS News.  Monday, 24 Jan 2022.
• COVID Chicago: CPS changes COVID-19 data tracking, raising questions
  
  Parents have been complaining for weeks that infection updates they receive from principals at individual schools don't appear in the district's online tracker.
  ABC News.  Monday, 24 Jan 2022.
• School Choice Is On The March
  
  In 2021, 621,700 students participated in one of 76 private school choice programs in 32 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
  Forbes.  Monday, 24 Jan 2022.
• Editorial: Oil drilling near homes is dangerous and unhealthy. California should end the practice
  
  California aims to ban new oil and gas drilling near homes and schools, but to improve health in pollution-choked communities it should end the practice.
  Los Angeles Times.  Monday, 24 Jan 2022.
• All California schoolchildren must be vaccinated against COVID-19 under new bill
  
  State Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) will announce Monday a bill to add COVID-19 vaccines to California's list of required inoculations for attending K-12 schools.
  Los Angeles Times.  Monday, 24 Jan 2022.
• Zags suspend Stockton's tickets over mask rules
  
  John Stockton's season tickets have been suspended by Gonzaga for the Hall of Famer's failure to follow the school's mask mandate, he confirmed to The Spokesman-Review.
  ESPN.  Sunday, 23 Jan 2022.
• School Districts Ready for Return After Omicron Fueled Cancellations
  
  New data shows the omicron variant wave in North Texas may be peaking right now.
  NBC.  Sunday, Jan 23 2022.

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