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LI Students Relocated Over Chemical Concerns
Hundreds of Long Island middle school students went back to school Thursday, but not their school, due to chemical concerns.
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Northport Middle School Relocates Over Chemical Concerns
As students at a Long Island middle school relocate their classes to nearby schools over health concerns, the New York State Health Department says it has expanded its cancer investigation to the entire school district. NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.
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Parents Sound Off On LI Student Relocations After Chemicals Found on School Campus
As students at a Long Island middle school relocate their classes to nearby schools over health concerns, the New York State Health Department says it has expanded its cancer investigation to the entire school district. Children at Northport Middle School were taught at other schools on Thursday as officials did further testing of the school’s soil, vapor, indoor air...
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Chemical Concerns Force Long Island School to Close
Hundreds of students at Northport Middle School have been forced to relocate for the rest of the year after elevated chemical levels were found in the building. Greg Cergol reports.
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Long Island Middle School Relocated Due to Environmental, Health Concerns: School District
A Long Island school district said it will relocate one of its middle schools this week over environmental health concerns. Students at Northport Middle School will be relocated to other schools within the district by Thursday, Jan. 23, Superintendent Robert Banzer for the Northport-East Northport Union Free School District said in a letter sent to parents on Saturday. Northport Middle…
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Teens Killed in Apparent Murder-Suicide in Watertown After Argument About Smoking: Police
A man is suspected of shooting and killing his girlfriend’s teenage son and daughter at their Watertown home Tuesday night after an argument about him smoking cigarettes in the house escalated, according to police. They said the man had moved into the home just two weeks earlier.
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Long Island Teacher Tells Students to Write Captions for Slavery Photos — and ‘Make Them Funny'
Parents on Long Island are calling for a teacher to lose her job and her teaching certificate after instructing students to write captions for a photo depicting slavery — and telling them to “make them funny.”
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Slavery Photo Assignment Sparks Protests on LI
An eighth grade teacher in Freeport asked students to caption photos of black slaves — and make them funny. Now parents are demanding the teacher be removed and for her to lose her teaching certification. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.
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Delaware School Sorry for Serving Roseanne Anthem Rendition
“The Star-Spangled Banner” isn’t an unusual feature of high school pregame festivities, but Roseanne Barr’s screeching 1990s rendition surprised spectators at one Delaware volleyball game. The News Journal of Wilmington reports the Seaford School District apologized Wednesday for the shock served at Seaford High School’s Tuesday game against Milford High.
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NYPD to Use Existing Officers Data to Help Prevent Suicides
As the New York Police Department grapples with a rash of suicides by police officers, the largest police force in the U.S. will implement personal data mining of its officers to spot any red flags.
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New Jersey Boy Wasn't Supposed to Leave School but Bus Dropped Him Off Over a Mile From Home: Parents
A 5-year-old boy in New Jersey was alone and scared when the school bus dropped him off more than a mile away from home − and his parents say he wasn’t even supposed to be on the bus in the first place.
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Bronx Mother Indicted on Manslaughter, Assault Charges in Deaths of Her Two Toddlers in 2017
The mother of toddler siblings who died minutes apart after being put to bed in their Bronx home in 2017 has been indicted on manslaughter and assault charges.
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Study Finds Carving Up School Districts Worsens Segregation
A new study finds that the carving out of new school districts in the South is increasingly dividing white students from their black and Latino peers, reinforcing segregation. The study examines 18 districts created since 2000 across Alabama, around Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and around Memphis, Tennessee. The study found that an increasing share of segregation between black and white students...
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NY School Delays Start of Year After Ransomware Attack
A school in Orange County was all set to welcome students back from summer vacation on Wednesday, but a ransomware attack has delayed the start of the school year.
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Harry Potter Removed From Tennessee Catholic School Library
A Catholic school in Tennessee has removed the Harry Potter books from its library after the school’s priest decided they could cause a reader to conjure evil spirits. In an email obtained by The Tennessean , the Rev. Dan Reehil of Nashville’s St. Edward Catholic School said he consulted exorcists in the U.S. and Rome who recommended removing the books....
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Raccoons and Fleas Infest NY School Before Students Return — Then a Bigger Problem is Discovered
As students were set to return from summer vacation, one New York school was battling with raccoons and fleas — and then the problem somehow got even worse.
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‘No-Brainer': New Jersey School Installs Bulletproof Doors
Classrooms at Harrington Park Schools in New Jersey have been transformed into safe rooms after new bulletproof doors were installed this week. The school’s superintendent Adam Fried called the installation of 50 new doors from Englewood Cliffs-based Remo Security a “no-brainer” to help students and staff feel safe in the wake of mass shootings that have gripped the nation.
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Alabama Girl Who Wore Tux for Senior Portrait Left Out of Yearbook Photos
An Alabama high school student who wore a tuxedo for her senior portrait instead of the traditional black drape for girls received her yearbook only to discover that her photo was missing, NBC News reports. Holley Gerelds, who graduated this year from Springville High School, told NBC affiliate WVTM in Birmingham that she wanted to be herself in her senior...
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White Arkansas Woman Pulls Gun on 4 Black Fundraising Teens
The wife of an Arkansas jail administrator was arrested and charged with assault several days after police say she pulled a gun on four black teenagers who were going door to door to raise money for their high school football team. Police in the eastern Arkansas city of Wynne, about 100 miles northeast of Little Rock, said the incident happened...
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Police Departments Confront ‘Epidemic' in Officer Suicides
A rash of suicides by police officers has shaken the New York Police Department, leading the commissioner to declare a mental health emergency and highlighting the problem of untreated depression among law enforcement officers nationwide.