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52-year-old elementary school principal Rudolph Jezek Jr. was killed in his office by 14-year-old Steven Guy, a former student. Assistant principal Gordon Sharp and janitor Ezekiel Thomas were injured by gunshot wounds while 29-year-old 8th grade teacher Peter Smith was injured while escaping due to falling down a flight of stairs.
On April 10, 2017, a shooting occurred inside a special education classroom at North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, California. The shooting was an apparent murder–suicide and an act of domestic violence. Three people—the gunman; his wife, who taught at the school; and a student standing behind her—died from their wounds.
The Morse Young Child Magnet School was changed from a K–3 to a K–2 school, and most Magnet School children transitioned from Morse to Smith for their elementary experience. By the middle of the 1990s, the district’ enrollment had grown by almost 1000 over the 1980 statistics, and the elementary schools were having difficulty finding ...
There have been about 200 school closures since 2000. Some have been repurposed, while others were torn down, most remain vacant though, although the exact number is unclear. According to Detroiturbex.com and additional historic research, there are 61 abandoned schools to this day, while 36 have been demolished and 2 have been renovated.
It now houses the NIHF STEM High School. Smith Elementary School closed at the end of the 2015–16 school year. [18] Spicer Elementary School, at 332 Carroll Street, closed in 1968 and became Spicer Hall at the University of Akron. The building was demolished in 1999. Stewart Elementary School closed at the end of the 2008–09 school year ...
The fierce battles of the 1960s died out by the 1990s, but enrollment declined sharply in education history courses and never recovered. Most histories of education deal with institutions or focus on the ideas histories of major reformers, but a new social history has recently emerged, focused on who were the students in terms of social ...
It took Kansas City’s University Academy charter school more than two weeks to look into student claims that their teacher had repeatedly used the n-word during an African American studies class.
Smith was born in 1951 in Ann Arbor, Michigan and was raised in Indianapolis, Indiana to missionary parents from Appalachia. [2] Smith attended schools where most of her classmates were African American during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, making her conscious of the issues of race and inequality at a young age as she was the "only white kid in a neighborhood that was pretty much ...