Victoria Olvera, a junior at the school, said Cruz was
expelled last school year because he got into a fight with his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend.
However, Victoria Olvera, a 17 - year - old junior, said Cruz was
expelled last school year after a fight with his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend.
A classmate, Victoria Olvera, 17, told the Associated Press that Cruz was
expelled last school year after a fight with his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend.
Not exact matches
The suspected gunman, former student Nikolas Cruz, 19, had been
expelled last year from the high
school, The Washington Post reported.
A Wisconsin
school district filed suit
last week in a move to prevent state Superintendent John T. Benson from overriding its decision to
expel a 16 -
year - old boy who had made a bomb threat.
Triggered by an OCR complaint that a black student filed after he was
expelled last year, the agreement signed
last month calls for the
school system to convene a blue - ribbon committee to review discipline procedures and recommend ways to help prevent disciplinary problems and eliminate overrepresentation of minorities.The multiethnic...
At district - run
schools, just over 0.05 percent of the student body was
expelled last year.
In the
last several
years, urban
school districts have focused considerable attention on the disproportionate rate at which these students are suspended and
expelled from
school.
Last year, district - run
schools expelled five of every 10,000 students, while charter operators on average kicked out 61 of every 10,000 students, according to CPS.
KIPP DC College Prep, a high
school,
expelled 17 students
last year — or 5 percent of its enrollment, the second - highest expulsion rate in the city.
Authorities and
school officials did not immediately say why Cruz had been
expelled from the
school, but a student who had a class with him
last year told Local 10 News that he got into trouble after bringing a weapon on campus.