Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center in Salt Lake City, poses with books that have been the subject of complaints from parents.
The sun rises over Newtown, Conn.. Now on the cusp of adulthood, the survivors of Sandy Hook are telling their stories, some for the first time, about growing up as a mass shooting survivor to help the children in Texas, who return to school this week.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott passes in front of a memorial outside Robb Elementary School to honor the victims killed in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, May 29, 2022. In the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, governors around the country vowed to take steps to ensure their students would be kept safe. Months later, as students return to classrooms, money has begun to flow for school security upgrades, training and other new efforts to make classrooms safer.
Students holds hands as they arrive at Uvalde Elementary, now protected by a fence and Texas State Troopers, for the first day of school. Students in Uvalde are returning to campuses for the first time since the shootings at Robb Elementary where two teachers and 19 students were killed.
Maria Elena Jasso, a teacher from San Antonio, left, visits a memorial honoring the victims of the school shootings at Robb Elementary. Educators from across the state have visited Uvalde to pay their respects to the 19 students and two teachers who were killed and to show support for the community.
Instructor Emily Daniels, left, raises her arms while leading a workshop helping teachers find a balance in their curriculum while coping with stress and burnout in the classroom in Concord, N.H.
Parents, students, and families arrive for a school board meeting in Uvalde, Texas, where board members voted unanimously to fire Pete Arredondo, the school district’s police chief.
Brent Kiger, the director of safety service for the school district in Olathe, Kansas, displays a panic-alert button while students at Olathe South High School rush between classes. The district introduced the buttons at the start of this school year as part of $2.1 million plan to make schools more secure.
Ms. Kaiser, a teacher from The Earth School, holds a sign in solidarity with other teachers who are speaking out on issues related to a lack of COVID-19 testing for students on Dec. 21 in New York.
