Mar 19 Parkland students pour their feelings into poetry By Jennifer Hijazi A 14-year-old student who was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School wrote about life's "ups and downs" soon before his death. After the shooting, a classmate writes that "nothing about this feels normal."… Continue reading
Mar 15 WATCH: New video shows what happened outside Parkland school shooting By Curt Anderson, Associated Press Police and school officials had resisted the release, saying it was evidence in an active investigation. Video of what happened inside the school is not being released. Continue reading
Mar 14 Watch 3:54 ‘The adults have failed us. This is in our hands now’: Thousands stage school walkout over gun violence By PBS News Hour Students and teachers walked out of class Wednesday morning by the tens of thousands to protest gun violence and remember the victims of last month’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Back in Washington, lawmakers pressed the FBI on why it… Continue watching
Mar 14 Watch 4:57 Kids who walked out see their generation as the one ‘getting things done’ on the gun debate By PBS News Hour Ceilidh Kern, a sophomore, and Jaylah Ross, a junior, are two students who participated in the March 14 school walkouts, and are part of a team from more than a dozen of our Student Reporting Labs who are covering the… Continue watching
Mar 14 Parkland shooting suspect Cruz appears in court, remains silent when asked about plea By Curt Anderson, Associated Press The former student charged with killing 17 people at a Florida high school last month refused to announce a plea on Wednesday so a judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. Continue reading
Mar 14 FBI official: ‘We clearly should have done more’ in Florida shooting By Matthew Daly, Kevin Freking, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The FBI could have and should have done more to investigate information it received prior to last month's massacre at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the agency's deputy director told a Senate panel on Wednesday. Continue reading
Mar 14 U.S. students stage school walkouts to protest gun violence By Collin Binkley, Associated Press From Maine to Hawaii, students planned to walk out of school Wednesday to protest gun violence in the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism that has emerged in response to last month's massacre of 17 people at Florida's Marjory… Continue reading
Mar 13 Watch 3:56 Student walkouts protesting shootings will vary around the country — and so will their schools’ responses By PBS News Hour To mark the one-month anniversary of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, students are planning walkouts around the country for Wednesday. Organizers expect more than 200,000 students in all 50 states will participate. But how schools handle these walkouts… Continue watching
Mar 04 Watch 22:20 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode March 4, 2018 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, March 4, despite criticism, the Trump administration plans to go ahead with proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum, and a documentary on the life and work on award-winning conflict photographer Chris Hondros. Also, a look… Continue watching
Mar 04 Watch 4:07 Lack of data means effects of gun laws aren’t well known By PBS News Hour As the debate around gun laws continues in the aftermath of the Parkland school shooting last month, a new report by the nonprofit RAND Corporation looks at some of the factors that could affect gun policies like background checks, age… Continue watching