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California superintendent fired for allegedly threatening students who didn't clap for her daughter

Doha Madani
Updated Thu, May 2, 2024 at 9:03 AM GMT+2·3 min read

A California school district fired its superintendent through a school board vote Tuesday after an investigation into her conduct.

In November, students on the Del Norte High School softball team alleged that Poway Unified School District Superintendent Marian Kim Phelps threatened their graduation privileges over a perceived slight of her daughter, who was on the team.

They addressed the school board at a meeting, alleging that Phelps believed the group had not clapped loudly enough for her daughter, NBC San Diego reported at the time.

After a softball awards banquet last May, students say, Phelps called and texted some of them late that night accusing them of not clapping for her daughter at the ceremony, NBC San Diego reported. Phelps then threatened to revoke their graduation privileges if they didn’t apologize to her daughter, the students alleged.

Coach Tom Peronto said at a school board meeting last year that he alerted the board to Phelps' "abuse of power" and that his livelihood was threatened as a result.

"Because I had exposed these abuses and emails to the board members, she then falsely accused me of verbally attacking a member of the board in the district parking lot, using this as justification to have me fired from coaching softball at Del Norte,” Peronto said.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-s ... 46328.html
(original: NBC News)

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Virginia school district restores names of Confederate leaders to 2 schools

CBS Evening News
11 May 2024

A Virginia school district is now the first in the country to restore school names honoring Confederate leaders after they were removed in the racial reckoning of 2020. While some say the change honors their heritage, others say it reopens wounds of racial hate. Nikole Killion reports.

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Federal judge demands explanation after Oklahoma teacher's certificate revoked

KFOR Oklahoma's News 4
14 Sept 2024

Federal judge demands explanation after Oklahoma teacher's certificate revoked

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MS-13 gang member attends Maryland High School as murder suspect, school not told

WBFF FOX45 Baltimore
10 Sept 2024

A grieving mother has a powerful warning for Maryland parents after her daughter was murdered and the suspected killer was allowed to attend a public school.

“When I start from the very beginning and get to the very end, they’re like, ‘wow, that is a really crazy story,’” The victim's mother Tammy Nobles told Project Baltimore. “And I say, ‘it is a crazy story. But it’s a true story.’ It’s the worst pain that a parent can ever get.”

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Mother of murder victim blames CPS for enrolling MS-13 suspect in Maryland school

by CHRIS PAPST | Project Baltimore
Wed, September 11th 2024 at 5:12 PM Updated Thu, September 12th 2024 at 10:38 PM


EDGEWOOD, Md. (WBFF) — Project Baltimore is learning new information about how an MS-13 gang member, and murder suspect, was able to enroll and attend a Maryland public school. The mother of the victim is largely blaming Harford County Child Protective Services.

Tammy Nobles is on a mission to effect change. On Tuesday, Nobles testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC, about her daughter, Kayla Hamilton’s, murder.

“(I came here today) to make sure that what happened to Kayla doesn't happen to anyone else's family,” said Nobles. “I want people to see her as a living person with hopes and dreams, and that they were taken from her.”

In July of 2022, the 20-year-old was killed by Walter Martinez who strangled her with a phone cord. He was also charged, but not convicted, of first-degree rape. In August, he was sentenced to 70 years in jail.

“After she was deceased, Martinez tied her up and sexually assaulted her,” Nobles explained to the Committee. “This is not a political issue. This is a safety issue for everyone here living in the United States.”

Nobles testimony centered on a recent Project Baltimore investigation which found Martinez, an MS-13 gang member illegally in the country, was allowed to enroll and attend a Maryland public school after police identified him as the primary murder suspect. And the school was not informed.

“This was also confirmed by their reporter with Fox 45 Project Baltimore, who got an actual confirmation from Edgewood High School,” stated Nobles before the Committee.

During her Congressional testimony, Nobles revealed additional details about how Martinez was able to enroll at Edgewood High School. Nobles explained under oath that, she believes, much of the fault lies with Harford County Child Protective Services – which took custody of Martinez as Aberdeen Police investigated Kayla’s murder.

“The Aberdeen Police Department asked CPS to put him in a secure location because of the crimes - being what he did. And they agreed to put him in a secure location,” said Nobles. “CPS did not let the Aberdeen Police Department know that they moved him from the group home to a foster home and enrolled him in high school.”



https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-b ... and-school

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A school banned Indigenous students from using their language. A century later, it’s teaching Cherokee
A precursor to Duke University once stripped students of their culture. Cherokee teachers are leading the change

Adria R Walker
Sat 21 Sep 2024 13.00 CEST

Between 1882 and 1887, some two dozen children from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians were enrolled in Trinity College’s Industrial Indian boarding school. The school, which operated about 20 miles south of Greensboro, North Carolina, alongside the college’s traditional liberal arts program, received federal funding in pursuit of its goal to assimilate Indigenous students.

The students, who ranged in age from eight to 18, were forced to work and wear western clothing, and were prohibited from speaking Cherokee or otherwise maintaining their traditions, while other students who attended Trinity College were instructed in the liberal arts.

In 1887, the boarding school closed. Trinity College eventually moved to Durham and, in 1924, it became Duke University. Now, the school at which Cherokee and other Indigenous students were forcibly stripped of their culture is being used to help revitalize the Cherokee language.

The classes are important not only because of Duke and the Cherokee people’s shared history, but also because more speakers are necessary to prevent the Cherokee language from going extinct. In 2019, the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes declared a state of emergency for the language.

“There are approximately 2,000 fluent first-language Cherokee speakers left, and each Cherokee tribe is losing fluent speakers at faster rates than new Cherokee speakers are developed,” the declaration reads.

Duke is partnering with Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and the University of Virginia for the promotion of less commonly taught languages, such as Haitian Creole, Turkish and Malagasy. The Cherokee language classes mark the first time an Indigenous American language is being taught at Duke.

Courtney Lewis, the director of Duke’s Native American Studies Initiative and an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, said that Duke’s legacy made it important for Cherokee to be the first Native American language taught on the campus.



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... e-language