Elementary School

An Alexandria police officer was shot in Old Town on Wednesday afternoon, just steps from an elementary school where first-graders were outside playing, authorities said. The officer, 17-year veteran Peter Laboy, 45, was in critical condition Wednesday night at Washington Hospital Center, where he had undergone surgery. The suspect, a cabdriver, led police on a chase into Fairfax County moments after the shooting. His yellow minivan taxi crashed, and he was taken into custody.

It was the regular tornado drill, the one Alexander Ghassimi and other children in Moore, Okla. , learn in school: Get to an interior hallway, get down, cover up. Then a teacher who had been watching the progress of Monday's storm outside Plaza Towers Elementary School came tearing down the hall, yelling to move as many children as possible into the girls' bathroom, and 11-year-old Alexander knew this was no ordinary tornado . "We were...

NEWTOWN, Conn.--A shooting rampage in this small Connecticut town on Friday morning left 28 people dead, including 20 children killed inside their elementary school, authorities said. The dead included the suspected gunman, whom law enforcement sources identified as Adam Lanza, 20. Police said that Lanza first apparently killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at the home they shared in Newtown. Then he drove in her car to Sandy Hook Elementary, the school at which Nancy Lanza taught kindergarten.

MOORE, Okla. — Several children have been pulled out of the rubble alive at a school in an Oklahoma City suburb. An Associated Press photographer saw several children being pulled out of what was left of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., on Monday after a massive tornado hit the region. Rescue workers lifted children from the rubble before they were passed down a human chain and taken to a triage center set up in the school's parking lot. The school is...

Sue Dillon, 81, a Foreign Service wife who taught elementary school abroad for 13 years, died Jan. 16 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County. She suffered complications from diabetes and vascular disease, said her daughter Elizabeth Porter. Caroline Sue Burch was born in New York City and raised in Arlington. She was a 1949 graduate of the old Western High School in Washington and received a bachelor's degree in history from George Washington University in 1960. She accompanied her husband to diplomatic postings in...

For 90 carefully dressed and reasonably solemn fifth-graders in Rockville, the passage from elementary school began Monday evening at 5:30 when they marched into an auditorium overflowing with parents, balloons and the strains of "Pomp and Circumstance. " For nearly an hour and a half, they sat — skinny necks leaning from buttoned collars and little hands wringing satin skirts — through two adult speakers, a slide show of their elementary years and remarks by four classmates.

A man's body was found in a wooded area near a Fairfax County elementary school this morning, and police are trying to determine whether it is a 31-year-old Burke man who has been missing since last week. A group of friends and colleagues of Mark David Radcliffe were searching for him about 7:30 a.m. when someone discovered a body not far from Bonnie Brae Elementary School on Sideburn Road, Fairfax police spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell said. Radcliffe had not been seen since July 6, and was reportedly distraught when he...

Irving I. Lipskind, 86, a retired Montgomery County elementary school principal, died May 26 at the Bedford Court senior living facility in Silver Spring. He had congestive heart failure, said his wife, Diane Lipskind. Mr. Lipskind was a longtime Silver Spring resident and worked for Montgomery County public schools for about three decades. He taught at Sherwood Elementary School in Sandy Spring before becoming principal of schools that included Highland View Elementary in Silver Spring and Bells Mill Elementary...

A 23-year-old District man was shot and fatally wounded yesterday as he stood with several other neighborhood residents on the steps of Truesdell Elementary School at Eighth and Ingraham streets NW. Anthony Maddox of the 5300 block of Eighth Street NW died a short time later at Washington Hospital Center, officials said. The shooting occurred about 5:30 p.m. after a man walked up to the group of young men, began firing a handgun and then quickly walked away, police said. The victim was struck in the chest; another bullet went through...

1. Hyde Elementary School, 3219 O St. NW. Replacement of air conditioner units and associated electrical work. Cost: $176,965. 2. LaSalle Elementary School, 501 Riggs Rd. NE. Replacement of air conditioner units and associated electrical work. Cost: $266,648. 3. First Congregational United Church of Christ, 945 G St. NE. Sheeting, shoring and excavation for a new building with 10 stories and penthouse. Cost: $500,000. 4. Cardozo High School, 1300 Clifton St. NW....

MOORE, Okla. — Police: Elementary school in Oklahoma City suburb takes direct hit from mile-wide tornado . Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

ROCKVILLE, Md. — A lawsuit that accused a Montgomery County elementary school principal of retaliation has been settled just days before a trial was scheduled to begin. The Washington Post reports (http://wapo.st/15yU4U8 ) that the case was settled out of court and that the terms of the settlement are confidential. Six former employees at Kemp Mill Elementary School had accused the principal, Floyd D. Starnes, of retaliating against them after suspicions of abuse...

NEWTOWN, Conn. — Newtown parents Steven Uhde and Peter Barresi didn't want the town to abandon the elementary school property where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in December and build a new school elsewhere, saying that would be like letting the gunman win. So they were glad Friday night when a task force of 28 local elected officials voted unanimously for a plan calling for tearing down Sandy Hook Elementary School and constructing...

Maryam Thomas, the sixth-grade instructional lead teacher at Charles Carroll Middle School, said that even this late in the school year, she still sees sixth-graders struggling to acclimate to the structure of middle school. "Even shifting into the fourth quarter, the kids were so confused," Thomas said. Officials at the New Carrollton school hope a new summer camp for incoming students will introduce the structure of middle school and let them learn the organizational and time management skills...

An employee at Glenn Dale Elementary School in Prince George's County has been charged with sexually abusing a minor and other related charges after allegedly fondling an eight-year-old girl during school. Prince George's County police arrested Jason Jamar Howard, 30, of Riverdale, last week after he was interviewed by investigators. According to charging documents, a teacher on April 17 witnessed Howard sit next to the child, place his hand under her skirt and molest her. The...

TEACHERS IN THE D.C. public school system are unable to hold back students in most elementary and middle school grades — even when it is clear that students haven't mastered the skills of the requisite grades, and even when there is complete agreement from school principals. Unless parents request retention, students generally advance to the next grade. This is the result of a provision in the D.C. Municipal Regulations that is clearly overdue for examination. "We have an inexplicable municipal regulation...

In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings , parents at one Montgomery County elementary school are asking for more security for their children, and they want it immediately. At least 21 letters from parents and grandparents of students at Bradley Hills Elementary School were emailed to Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr , the Board of Education and the County Council last week asking for "security improvements" at the Bethesda school's temporary location.

Principal Brian Butler stood in the back of Falls Church High School 's little theater auditorium looking much like a coach waiting to field a team. The problem, however, is he isn't sure what his team's name is just yet. This fall, Butler will head a new elementary school in Annandale, which is being built. The unnamed school is on the site of the former Masonville Elementary School, which closed in 1980 because of low enrollment and was converted into the Lacey...

An Alexandria police officer was shot in Old Town on Wednesday afternoon, just steps from an elementary school where first-graders were outside playing, authorities said. The officer, 17-year veteran Peter Laboy, 45, was in critical condition Wednesday night at Washington Hospital Center, where he had undergone surgery. The suspect, a cabdriver, led police on a chase into Fairfax County moments after the shooting. His yellow minivan taxi crashed, and he was taken into custody.