Student arrested in North Carolina after school shooting

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Carver High School was conducting a fire drill when the School Resource Officer heard shots being fired.

The SRO arrested an 18-year old student for shooting a 15-year old student.

The 15-year old victim was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.

US District Court upholds 2008 expulsion

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In a ruling that stated that threats against a school were not protected by the First Amendment, a federal appeals court upheld the expulsion.

In 2008 a former student used social media to reference Virginia Tech, and threatened violence against his high school classmates.  He was expelled.

Cyber-attack directed against the Kentucky Department of Education

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A portal in the Kentucky DOE‘s website used by parents to check their student‘s grades was hit with a denial-of-service attack.  This attack crashed the site, preventing parents in 50 school districts from accessing the website.

The DOE worked with AT&T to get the portal re-opened, and shored it up to prevent such attacks from causing it to crash in the future.