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In this image made from video, Zachary Cruz cries as his brother, Nikolas Cruz is arraigned at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Cruz is accused of opening fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 14, killing 17 students and adults. (WSVN via AP, Pool)
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David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez, two students who survived last month's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, said Monday that the National Rifle Association has been "basically threatening" them. (CBS News)
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FILE - In this March 18, 2016, file photo, the Holy Cross mascot claps as player leave the court after a first-round men's NCAA college basketball game against Oregon in in Spokane, Wash. The president of the College of the Holy Cross says the Jesuit school will stop using the image of a knight as a logo and mascot even though trustees last month decided to keep the Crusaders athletic nickname. (AP Photo/Young Kwak, File)
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This undated photo released by the Bermuda Police Service shows American college student Mark Dombroski, who has been reported missing in Bermuda. Bermuda police Dombroski was on a rugby tour with Saint Josephs University, a college near Philadelphia, when he disappeared early Sunday, March 18, 2018. (Courtesy of Bermuda Police Service via AP)
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David Kissner, a math and science teacher at C.T. English Middle School in Los Gatos, California, is defending his decision to give a student a failing grade for a quiz given at the time of the National Student Walkout, even after school administrators instructed teachers not to punish students who participated. (KNTV)
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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Parkland, Fla., school shootings and school safety, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Authorities estimate that between 40 to 60 high school students trashed a Chicago Walmart after being allowed to participate in a nationwide protest in favor of gun control. (Image: Fox-32 Chicago screenshot)
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A Penn State student walks in the rain past Old Main on the Penn State main campus in State College, Pa., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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The Douglas County School District in Georgia is investigating after a 7-year-old white girl, "the only white girl in her class," according to her father, was cast to play a segregationist in a school play. (WSB-TV)
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Women's History Month quiz
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Julianne Benzel, a history teacher at Rocklin High School in Rocklin, was placed on paid administrative leave this week after she pointed out an apparent double standard surrounding Wednesday's national school walkout against gun violence. (CBS13)
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Broward County Schools' Choice Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Students from D.C.-area schools rally for stricter gun control legislation Wednesday on the southeast lawn of the U.S. Capitol during the National School Walkout. In similar acts across the nation, students walked out of classes and held a 17-minute moment of silence in honor of the victims in the Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Photo by Julia Airey / The Washington Times
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Diamond Bryant, center, a freshman at James Ferris High School walks with classmates during a student walkout, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Jersey City, N.J. Students across the country participated in walkouts Wednesday to protest gun violence, one month after the deadly shooting inside a high school in Parkland, Fla. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Dennis Alexander, a math and administration of justice teacher at Seaside High School, who is also a Seaside city councilman and reserve officer for Sand City Police Department, accidentally fired a gun inside a classroom during a safety lesson Tuesday afternoon, injuring at least one student. (Seaside City Council)
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Illustration on Union pressure by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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President Trump's school safety plan, released in detail Monday, said the commission, led by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, will look at killing the Obama policy known as "Rethink School Discipline." That particular policy was intended to help minority students. (Associated Press photographs)
