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A new report shows a decline in American students' proficiency in both reading and math since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona calls the results "appalling" and "unacceptable." He joins CBS News to discuss the impact of remote learning and how the Biden administration's is responding to the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Tenth-grader Alexandria Bell and 61-year-old teacher Jean Kuczka died and seven students were wounded.
A teacher and a 16-year-old girl were killed Monday after a gunman broke into a St. Louis high school and opened fire. Damon Arnold reports.
St. Louis Metropolitan Police Commissioner Michael Sack and other officials said the swift response to a deadly shooting at the city's Central Visual and Performing Arts High School helped prevent an even greater tragedy. A teacher and a teenage girl were killed, and officials said they gunman is also dead. Watch their full briefing.
Ethan Crumbley, who fatally shot four of his classmates, pleaded guilty to 24 felony counts, including murder and terrorism, in a Michigan courtroom. He could face life in prison and may be called to testify when his parents go on trial for supplying him with a gun.
Two people were fatally shot in a St. Louis school by a man believed to be in his 20s. A teenage girl was pronounced dead inside the school and another victim, a woman, died at the hospital. The gunman was killed by police. Caroline Hecker reports.
Ashley Rench said she heard a loud bang, then the intercom announced, "Miles Davis is in the building" — code for an intruder, she said.
St. Louis Police Commissioner Michael Sack said a woman and a teenage girl were killed Monday morning in a shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in the city. The gunman was also dead. Watch the briefing from police and other officials.
The suspect's parents are also facing prosecution, accused of making a gun accessible to their son and ignoring his need for mental health treatment.
Sgt. Juan Maldonado is the third officer to be fired over the botched law enforcement response to the shooting.
A teenager accused of killing four students and injuring seven others at a high school outside Detroit is expected to plead guilty to murder next week. Attorneys for 16-year-old Ethan Crumbley said he will plead guilty to all 24 charges against him.
"If some kids are coming away traumatized or we're magnifying existing trauma, we're not moving in the right direction," one expert says.
Three killed, eight injured in Michigan high school shooting; Prince Charles visits Barbados to witness historic ceremony
Alex Jones was ordered to pay nearly $1 billion in a defamation case for promoting the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax. Nikki Battiste reports.
A jury will decide whether the Parkland school shooter is sentenced to life in prison without parole or the death penalty after lawyers made their closing arguments Tuesday. Manuel Bojorquez has more.
The school board in Uvalde, Texas,is beginning its search for a new superintendent after Hal Harrell announced his retirement. That comes a little more than four months after the deadly mass shooting at Robb Elementary. Brett Cross, the uncle of a shooting victim, joins CBS News to reflect on Harrell's retirement and how the investigation is being handled.
The jury, which will be sequestered starting Wednesday, will decide if the gunman will get a death sentence or life behind bars.
The Biden administration has allocated nearly $300 million in funding towards addressing the mental health crisis in schools. U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona joins CBS News' John Dickerson to discuss the issue.
The Uvalde, Texas school superintendent, Hal Harrell, says he’s retiring at the end of the school year. He and other officials have faced heavy criticism in the wake of the school shooting there last May. The case of missing 20-month-old Georgia toddler Quinton Simon is now also a criminal investigation. And pioneering radio DJ Art Laboe, who’s credited with helping end segregation in Southern California, has died at 97.
Police identified the attacker as a former police officer who was fired from the force earlier this year because of a drug charge.
Uvalde school officials have abruptly fired a former Texas state trooper who was on scene of the Robb Elementary School massacre in May and then hired by the school district.
At least 17 people were killed, including 11 children, when a gunman opened fire at a school in central Russia. Dozens were wounded.
Russia's Investigative Committee identified the gunman as 34-year-old Artyom Kazantsev, a graduate of the school, and said he was wearing a shirt bearing "Nazi symbols."
Killed in the 1997 shooting were Jessica James, Kayce Steger and Nicole Hadley, who Carneal said was a "very good friend."
Prosecutors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are about to begin their rebuttal case.
Conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk died Wednesday after he was shot at an event at Utah Valley University.
Charlie Kirk died Wednesday after he was shot in the neck while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University.
A new lawsuit filed by fired FBI agents says the bureau "tried to put the President in jail and he hasn't forgotten it."
Former Vice President Kamala Harris' book, "107 Days," will detail her sprint of a race for the presidency.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says the suspect is also in the hospital with injuries from self-inflicted shots.
It's unclear if the repeal will end up in the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act, which still has to get through the Senate.
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life.
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison took the title of world's richest person from Elon Musk after stock in the software giant shot up on Wednesday.
Passengers endured 2.5 minutes of turbulence that caught the pilots by surprise even though they had already altered their route to avoid the storms, the NTSB said.