Sandy Hook Elementary

Parents and teachers from Sandy Hook Elementary School are getting ready to bring children back to school for the first time in nearly three weeks after the school shooting that killed 20 first graders and six staff members. On Thursday, Sandy Hook Elementary students will get back to their routines in the neighboring town of […]

One week after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, Michelle Obama has written a letter to families in Newtown, CT. In the letter, published in The Hartford Courant, the First Lady expresses her sympathies for grieving families, gives thanks to the town’s first responders and heroic teachers — and finally, talks about how both Newtown and […]

After most shootings, administrators, parents, and residents must decide whether to demolish or overhaul existing areas where students, teachers, and school personnel have been brutally…

The schools of Newtown, which stood empty in the wake of a shooting rampage that took 26 of their own, will again ring with the sounds of students and teachers on Tuesday as the bucolic Connecticut town struggles to return to normal. But among the normal sounds of a school day – teachers reading to […]

At least 27 people, 18 of them children, were shot and killed Friday at a Connecticut elementary school, according to reports. As the tragic story continues to develop, the heroism of teachers on the scene is already recognized. “They will be applauded for their efforts,” an ABC newscaster said during the station’s live video report Friday afternoon, citing […]

In the wake of this horrific tragedy that struck our homes this morning, the gunman who killed 26 people this morning, 20 being children, is 20 year-old Adam Lanza. CNN Reports: Who was Adam Lanza? He’s a 20-year-old Connecticut man, but other than his age, the picture of him is blurry. But the details of […]

More than two dozen people, mostly elementary school children, were shot and killed at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school this morning, federal and state sources tell ABC News. The massacre involved two gunmen at a Connecticut school this morning, prompting the town of Newtown to lock down all of its schools and draw SWAT teams […]