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Georgia official seeks more school safety money after Apalachee High shooting

Sep. 16, 2024 18:12 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state school superintendent says he wants the state to spend more money to guarantee security officers and wearable panic alert buttons after a school shooting killed four at Apalachee High School northeast of Atlanta. Richard Woods, a Republican elected...

Bus crashes into students and parents in eastern China, killing 11 and injuring 13, police say

Sep. 03, 2024 00:57 AM EDT

BEIJING (AP) — A bus crashed into a group of students and their parents at a school in eastern China early Tuesday, killing 11 people and injuring 13, police said. The students and parents were at the gate of a middle school in Tai’an city in the eastern province of Shandong just...

New metal detectors delay students' first day of school in one South Florida district

Aug. 12, 2024 16:38 PM EDT

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The first day back to school in South Florida’s Broward County got off to a chaotic start as a disorganized rollout of new metal detectors kept students waiting in lines long after the first bell rang. At high schools across the nation's sixth largest...