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EduClips is a roundup of the week鈥檚 top education headlines from America鈥檚 15 largest school districts, where more than 4 million students across 10 states attend class every day. Read previous EduClips installments here.

CALIFORNIA 鈥� 16-Second Spasm of Violence Leaves 2 Dead at a Southern California High School: Two students were killed and three injured during a shooting at Santa Clarita鈥檚 Saugus High School Thursday morning. One of the injured students has already been released from the hospital, and the others were held overnight Thursday. The suspected shooter is also hospitalized in grave condition after a self-inflicted gunshot wound. All of the schools in the William S. Hart Union High School District, which includes Saugus, were聽 Friday. Officials said Thursday the motive was unclear and they did not know if there was a connection between the shooter and the victims. 鈥淚鈥檓 bewildered and looking for answers 鈥� the question as to why all this would happen,鈥� one student who knew the shooter聽. 鈥淪o many questions no one has the answers to.鈥� (Read at 补苍诲听)

NEW YORK 鈥� Anti-Semitic Crime Spike Brings No-Hate Class to More Brooklyn Schools: A 鈥渄ramatic鈥� rise in anti-Semitic crimes in Brooklyn has spurred local advocates and officials to double the number of schools teaching anti-bias classes in the borough. The Anti-Defamation League and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams announced this week a $250,000 effort to double the footprint of the “No Place for Hate” program, allowing the classes to reach as many as 10,000 students across 40 schools, Anna Quinn reports. ()

NATIONAL 鈥� Supreme Court鈥檚 Conservative Majority Appears to Back Trump Plan to End DACA, Potentially Putting Thousands of Students and Teachers at Risk of Deportation: During oral arguments this week, the Supreme Court鈥檚 conservative majority seemed to side with President Trump over DACA, which protects some 700,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as young children. Liberal Justice Stephen Breyer emphasized the human toll of ending the program, while Trump-appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch questioned the argument that the president needed stronger policy reasons for ending the program. Mark Keierleber was inside the courtroom. (Read at 蜜桃影视)

CHICAGO 鈥� Here鈥檚 How Much Chicago鈥檚 Tentative Deals With the Teachers Union Will Cost Taxpayers: After an 11-day strike rocked the city, both the mayor and the union notched some wins in the contract, which the union voted on Thursday and Friday and which still requires a vote from the Chicago Board of Education. This year, the district will cover the cost 鈥� around $137 million 鈥� with the money it saved by not paying teachers during the strike and some surplus tax funds it received from the city. That means the 2019-20 budget is balanced, but it鈥檚 unclear how the district will meet its financial obligations going forward. The contract is expected to cost an extra $1.5 billion over the next five years. Cassie Walker Burke breaks down the numbers. ()

TEXAS 鈥� Students Still Fighting for Special Education Services: Years after the federal government found that Texas was illegally denying students special education services, thousands of children are still not getting the support they need. Shelby Webb looks at how students and families are coping and why the state is still failing to meet its obligations. ()

鈼� Related: 250,000 Kids. $277 Million in Fines. It鈥檚 Been 3 Years Since Feds Ordered a Special Ed Reboot in Texas 鈥� Why Are Students Still Being Denied? (Read at 蜜桃影视)

FLORIDA 鈥斅�How Did a Dad with a Criminal Past Get to Volunteer in a Tampa Middle School? At first, Tony Lorenzo Hart was an outstanding volunteer at Adams Middle School in Hillsborough County, supporting educators and getting more dads involved on campus. Then, in October, he failed a background check because of his criminal history. (He鈥檚 served two stints in prison, for crimes that did not involve children.) Now the district is grappling with why he was allowed to volunteer at all and how to better navigate such delicate situations, Marlene Sokol reports. ()

TEXAS 鈥斅�Dallas Trustees Considering Cameras in Every Special Education Classroom: One Dallas schools trustee has proposed recording every special education classroom in the district. State law already requires special education classrooms to be recorded if a parent, trustee or staff member requests it. Some are concerned about the cost of additional cameras and worry that they might make teacher retention more difficult. Eva-Marie Ayala explains the debate. ()

鈼� More from Texas: As Texas Moves to Replace Houston鈥檚 School Board, Here Are 7 Things to Know About the Takeover (Read at 蜜桃影视)

Noteworthy Opinion & Analysis

SCHOOL SCHEDULE: Kamala Harris Wants to Align the School Day to Parents鈥� Work Schedule. Does It Do More Harm or Good? ()

E-SPORTS: Why Colleges Are Betting Big on Video Games聽()

HEALTH: Banning E-Cigarettes Could Do More Harm Than Good ()

DEVOS: Betsy DeVos Might Outlast Them All ()

What Else We鈥檙e Reading

RESEARCH: Secret Service Report Says 鈥楶revention Is Key’ in Addressing School Violence (; )

PODCAST: The American Dream and Social Mobility for the Children of Immigrants ()

Q&A: How the Muppets Became Revolutionaries: An Interview With Sesame Street鈥檚 VP of Curriculum and Content ()

TV: 鈥楤lue鈥檚 Clues鈥� Returns, and Silence Is Still the Star ()

SOLUTIONS: Motor City Students to Benefit From a Different Kind of Horsepower Through New Partnership ()

Quotes of the Week

鈥淭he data just do not support that. With a high school diploma alone, it鈥檚 very hard to earn the kinds of wages one would need to support a family.鈥� 鈥�Thomas Brock, a research professor and director of the Community College Research Center at Columbia University, on a recent poll showing that many young Americans believe that a high school diploma alone is enough for success. ()

鈥淚 was afraid I was going to go in, and not come back out. What is your plan to end gun violence so that way students can feel safe going to school?鈥� 鈥�Nora, 12, to Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris during an October town hall in Ankeny, Iowa. (Read at 蜜桃影视)

鈥淓veryone thinks we鈥檙e fine, but we鈥檙e not fine. Our kids aren鈥檛 fine and they鈥檙e never gonna be. Please tell people we鈥檙e not fine.鈥� 鈥�Nakiya Wakes, mother of two schoolchildren in Flint, Michigan, where high levels of lead in the water are feared to have sparked emotional and behavioral problems at school. ()

鈥淲hat more would you have the government say?鈥� 鈥擩ustice Neil Gorsuch, questioning whether the Trump administration needed to offer more reasons for its decision to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects some 700,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as young children. Gorsuch and other members of the court鈥檚 conservative majority appeared during oral arguments to side with Trump in his desire to end the program. (Read at 蜜桃影视)

鈥淐hoose civility.鈥� 鈥擬otto of Howard County, Maryland, found on the bumpers of many cars. A redistricting plan to balance the number of low-income children enrolled in schools has led to protests, racist emails and a death threat against the superintendent. ()

鈥� With contributions from Andrew Brownstein聽

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