Authorities are on the lookout for a man they said carjacked a 17-year-old girl on Tuesday at an elementary school near Cactus Road and 19th Avenue.
Officers with the Phoenix Police Department just after 8 a.m. initially responded to a neighborhood near Cactus Road and 23rd Avenue after receiving a report of a suspicious pickup truck in the area, said Phoenix police spokesperson Sgt. Maggie Cox.
The caller told police two people appeared to be asleep in the pickup truck, Cox said.
When contacted by police, the pickup truck moved backward into a police vehicle and then forward into a cement fence a couple of times, Cox said. No officers were injured.
Dec. 15, 2020 11:36 am ET
PHOENIX As if the pandemic weren’t disruptive enough, many American schools are facing a growing shortage of teachers.
School districts are recruiting parents as substitute teachers, online class sizes are soaring to 50 children or more and bus drivers are baby-sitting classrooms. Some are considering allowing asymptomatic teachers who were exposed to Covid-19 to continue to show up.
Public-school employment in November was down 8.7% from February, and at its lowest level since 2000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That includes teachers who quit, retired early or took leaves of absence due to the pandemic, and layoffs of support staff such as teachers’ aides and clerical workers. The staffing crunch leaves teachers educating children in person and online simultaneously, deep-cleaning their own classrooms and taking turns as crossing guards.