All posts tagged "Elementary School Students"

According to a report released this morning by the Attorney General of California, one of every four elementary school students in the state are truant every year. The state's definition of truancy is three or more unexcused absence per school year, and the effects of these absences, especially among elementary school students, are profound.

Students and teachers have been evacuated after shots were fired at an elementary school in DeKalb County, Georgia. According to WSB Channel 7, a suspect is in custody.

To celebrate the man who moved America, whose life was cut short by an assassin just as he'd begun a campaign to fight poverty as he tested the waters for a possible presidential run, fourth grade students from Washington, D.C.'s Watkins Elementary School gathered on a recent Martin Luther King, Jr. day to recite his famous "I Have a Dream" speech for a crowd of onlookers.