With 20% of classes lacking central cooling systems, some parents have considered keeping their kids home or staging a walkout amid this week's heat wave.
Superintendent Jill Baker said the district did everything it could to plan for the return of students after their education was interrupted by a global pandemic. “But it wasn’t enough,” she said, adding this past school year was “rocky.”
The 24-year-old gunman contacted authorities and confessed to shooting 15-year-old Joshua Simmons during a cell phone sale gone bad, according to police.