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Randi Weingarten, a major proponent of school lockdowns and COVID-19 restrictions, was appointed to the Homeland Security Academic Partnership Council on Wednesday. “Leaders of our academic institutions and campus life have a great deal to offer in helping us counter the evolving and emerging threats to the homeland,” Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement announcing the decision. The council’s specific tasks include advising Mayorkas on research, career development, and partnership opportunities that will help the department “safeguard the American people, and help our country think through and prepare for whatever threats lie ahead,” Mayorkas said.

The latest apparent overreaction about guns and schools appears to be in Ohio, in Stark County, at the Marlington High School in Alliance.   A high school student texted a middle school student.  Attached to the message was a picture of a gun.  The middle school student showed the picture to their teacher, the teacher contacted the police, and the High School was put on lockdown.   From wkyc.com: Officers and deputies located the suspect while maintaining a safety perimeter around the school. Corleaunce S. Hicks 16 , of Alliance, was charged with inducing panic, a third-degree felony.  There is...

(Newser) – A Pennsylvania school district went into crisis mode yesterday over a shooting "threat" that turned out to be misheard lyrics from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song. High school student Travis Clawson, 19, unwittingly found himself the subject of a manhunt when the receptionist at his eye doctor's office called to confirm an upcoming appointment and got his voicemail. The greeting, to her ears, said he couldn't come to the phone because he was "shooting people outside of the school," the Beaver County Times reports. You've guessed the punchline: The message was actually Clawson's rendition of Will...

A police officer for the L.A. Unified School District has survived a shooting. A sketch of the suspect who shot LAUSD police officer Jeff Stenroos near El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills is expected to be released sometime Thursday. Detectives at the LAPD's Robbery-Homicide Division are taking the lead in the hunt for the gunman, according to watch commanders at the Topanga Station and at the school police department. Stenroos was shot once in the chest area about 11:40 a.m. Wednesday and his bullet resistant vest saved him from serious injury. He was released from Northridge Hospital Medical...