EDUCATION

"The chair is a good person, but made a bad decision under pressure in this case," Dorian Abbot wrote in a tweet.

The National School Boards Association called threats to school board officials a form of domestic terrorism and asked the federal government to intervene.

A memo from Education Superintendent Molly Spearman said districts now have "discretionary authority to require masks."

"We could have driven him, but he wanted to do something different and something unique," said the student's father Jason Smith.

The prosecutor in charge of the case said his office believed "these to be the appropriate charges under the fact of the investigation."

"I had to make it believable enough without raising any red flags," said Laura Janke, a former assistant women's soccer coach.

New York Mayor Bill De Blasio and the Department of Education (DOE) have announced that any New York public school staff that hasn't received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine will be removed from payroll.

"I'm sorry these students did not follow our repeated admonitions and warnings, and I hope they will make the correction necessary," a school official said.

Students were evacuated from the building as authorities used pepper spray to break up the fight. No weapons were reportedly used during the melee.

Viral videos on TikTok of students destroying school property and fighting each other have sparked copy-cat behavior as schools return to classrooms.

[We are] "deeply dismayed that this behavior and activity was exhibited by someone from our community," Newberg (Oregon) High School Principal Tami Erion said.

The Hudson, Ohio, mayor said he has already discussed the writing prompts with a judge, whom he said agreed that they were "essentially" child pornography.