All posts tagged "Elementaryschool"

Kimberly Mata-Rubio announced her plans to run for Uvalde city mayor with the promise of repairing a community left fractured by the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, which claimed the life of her 10-year-old daughter, Alexandria “Lexi” Rubio. “I grieve for the woman you would have become and all the difference you would have made in this world,” Mata-Rubio said in a tweet shared Thursday evening, along with the local newspaper announcement of her candidacy. “I grieve for the woman I was when you were still here. But, one part of me still exist[s], I am still your mom. I will honor your......

PHILADELPHIA — Some people might say Diana Garcia came from very little: Her parents were undocumented immigrants from Dominican Republic who sometimes lacked the money to buy clothes for the family. They never stepped foot in their children's school buildings — they didn't speak English, and they didn't feel welcome. But Garcia often says she "comes from poverty, not dysfunction." Despite her parents' lack of material means, there was abundant love at home, thrift store books — including a set of encyclopedias that had some volumes missing — and the pervasive sense that education would vault ......

The mother of the 6-year-old boy accused of shooting a teacher at a Virginia elementary school last week could possibly face charges, authorities said. Newport News police Chief Steve Drew told “CNN This Morning” Tuesday that investigators are still in talks with Child Protective Services officials and the school to determine whether the kid had shown any behavioral issues in the past. Charges against the mother are “certainly a possibility,” he added. Around 2 p.m. Friday, Newport News police responded to a shooting at Richneck Elementary School. The incident occurred after an interaction bet......

Principal Mandy Gutierrez has been reinstated as head of Robb Elementary School, where 19 students and two teachers were killed in a mass shooting in May. “Ms. Gutierrez’s administrative leave with pay has been lifted and she has been fully reinstated to her position, where she will continue to discharge her duties and continue to serve all the families of the UCISD,” her attorney Ricardo Cedillo confirmed in a statement to ABC News. Her return comes just days after Hall Harell, superintendent of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, suspended her with pay. While a specific reas......

A Texas teacher already reeling after the mass shooting inside Robb Elementary has been made to feel all the more devastated by authorities who incorrectly stated she propped open a door that allowed the gunman to enter the school. “It’s traumatic for her when it’s insinuated that she’s involved, the door open,” attorney Don Flanary, who represents the unidentified educator, told ABC News. “She’s heartbroken.” In the moments before the massacre on May 24, Flanary said the teacher walked outside to meet a colleague dropping her off some food, briefly propping open a door leading back inside the......

Students trapped in a classroom with the gunman repeatedly called 911 during this week’s attack on a Texas elementary school as nearly 20 officers waited in the hallway for more than 45 minutes, authorities said Friday, according to the Associated Press. The commander at the scene in Uvalde — the school district’s police chief — believed that 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos was barricaded inside adjoining classrooms at Robb Elementary School and that children were no longer at risk, said Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, at a contentious news conference. “It w......