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The Broward County, Florida, school district will pay more than $26 million to the families of 17 people killed and some of those injured in the 2018 Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

School Shooting Florida FILE- Law enforcement officers block off the entrance to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Feb. 15, 2018 in Parkland, Fla., following a deadly shooting at the school. The families of most of those killed in the 2018 Florida high school massacre have settled their lawsuit against the federal government. Sixteen of the 17 killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland had sued over the FBI’s failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File) (Wilfredo Lee)FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — (AP) — The Broward County, Florida, school district will pay more than $26 million to the families of 17 people killed and some of those injured in the 2018 Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Another $1.25 million will be paid in one lump sum to Anthony Borges, who suffered some of the most severe injuries.

A South Florida school district will pay more than $26 million to the families of 17 people killed in the 2018 shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

A South Florida teenager is accused of making a school shooting threat against Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The settlement is over the FBI's failure to act on a tip about the intended attack weeks before the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The settlement is over the FBI's failure to act on a tip about the intended attack weeks before the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida Parkland, Florida, USA - April 25, 2018: The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The school was the site of a school shooting in 2018 which set off mass protests against gun violence. (wellesenterprises/Getty Images)Family members of those killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, will be receiving $130 million from the U.S. Justice Department over the FBI’s failure to properly investigate the teenager who shot and killed 17 people there. One woman called the FBI to tell them that Cruz was posting threatening messages on Instagram. Attorneys for the families and the department said in a joint court filing Monday, they’ve reached an agreement to settle all the claims at issue in the case.

Families of more than a dozen victims of the 2018 school shooting have reached a settlement with the Justice Department to resolve their lawsuit over the FBI's failure to act on tips about the gunman.

The families of most of those killed in the 2018 Florida high school massacre will receive $127 million from the federal government to settle a lawsuit.

The plea comes more than three and a half years after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which left 14 students and three faculty members dead.

Nikolas Cruz has pleaded guilty to murder in the 2018 massacre that left 17 dead at a Parkland, Florida, high school.

The boys, both students at Harns Marsh Middle School in Lehigh Acres, are accused of planning a shooting at the school. The boys, ages 13 and 14, are charged with conspiracy to commit a mass shooting, according to Lee County officials. The teacher acted immediately, said Ken Savage, superintendent of the Lee County school district. Florida school shooting: Nikolas Cruz, left, is escorted into court Jan. 27, 2020, for a pretrial hearing. Lee County deputies were very familiar with both boys, Marceno said.

After being accused of hiding during the school shooting that killed 17, a school resource officer will face criminal charges for his actions.

A judge has ruled that the former school resource officer accused of hiding during a Florida mass school shooting will have to convince a jury that he wasn’t criminally negligent.

A Florida judge has refused to close pretrial hearings to the media and public in the case of the man accused of killing 17 people in a 2018 high school mass shooting.

Attorneys for the suspect in a 2018 Florida high school massacre want a judge to bar news outlets and the public from all pretrial hearings.

Parkland shooting survivor says their dad believes it was a hoax after QAnon 'consumed his life'

The embattled Broward County Public Schools superintendent at a top district lawyer who were both indicted on felony charges last week have agreed to step down and the board plans to vote on their replacements as early as Thursday.

Cruz was 19 years old at the time of the Feb. 14 attack on the school.Cruz was charged with 17 counts of murder. His trial is currently in limbo, as his legal team tries to avoid the death penalty sought by prosecutors.Shortly after then-Gov. Rick Scott signed the legislation, the National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit challenging the age requirement, arguing that it runs afoul of the Second Amendment. Ron DeSantis has ordered that flags be flown at half-staff at state and local government buildings on Sunday. The state Capitol will be illuminated in Marjory Stoneman Douglas’ school colors — burgundy and silver — from Sunday through Feb. 21.

President Joe Biden speaks as he meets with Senators from both parties in the White House on Feb. 11, 2021. President Joe Biden on Sunday called on Congress to strengthen gun laws on the third anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. We will take action to end our epidemic of gun violence and make our schools and communities safer," Biden said. Fourteen students and three staff members were killed in the Parkland shooting. The House passed the Bipartisan Background Checks Act and the Enhanced Background Checks Act during the last Congress.

President Joe Biden used the the occasion to call on Congress to strengthen gun laws, including requiring background checks on all gun sales and banning assault weapons. The president used the occasion to call on Congress to strengthen gun laws, including requiring background checks on all gun sales and banning assault weapons. "For those of us who lost loved ones that day, it's pretty much like any other day. Even before the Parkland tragedy, there was already plenty of anguish in Florida over gun violence. “Today, as we mourn with the Parkland community, we mourn for all who have lost loved ones to gun violence,” he said.

As we approach the third anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, it’s a good time to reflect on the magnitude of the situation, as well as where it has led us from there.

In this frame grab from video provided by WPLG-TV, students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., evacuate the school following a shooting there on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (WPLG-TV via AP)FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A Florida judge has ruled that a local school district had no responsibility to warn students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School of the danger posed by a former student who would later be accused of a mass shooting that killed 17 people. Broward Circuit Judge Patti Englander Henning said Monday that the Broward County school district cannot be held liable for failing to predict actions that were beyond its control, the South Florida SunSentinel reported. AdFamilies of the victims have sued Cruz, who was 19 at the time, as well as the school district, the Broward Sheriff’s Office and on-duty deputies who failed to stop the massacre. “The District had no control over Cruz,” the judge ruled.

Sorrow is reverberating across the country Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021, as Americans joined a Florida community in remembering the 17 lives lost three years ago in the Parkland school shooting massacre. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)Three U.S. senators have introduced a school safety bill named for two of the students killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting almost three years ago on Feb. 14. Senators Rick Scott, Marco Rubio, of Florida, and Sen. Ron Johnson, of Wisconsin, introduced the Luke and Alex School Safety Act of 2021. “The Luke and Alex School Safety Act will ensure that the Federal School Safety Clearinghouse remains a resource our schools can access in the future. AdJohnson introduced the Luke and Alex School Safety Act of 2019 to create the Federal School Safety Clearinghouse.

click to enlarge Photo by Monivette CordeiroThe Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to take up cases in which parents of victims of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School alleged negligence by a mental-health facility that provided services to accused shooter Nikolas Cruz. Justices issued two orders declining to take up appeals filed by Andrew Pollack and Shara Kaplan, parents of slain student Meadow Pollack, and Royer Borges and Emely Delfin, parents of seriously injured student Anthony Borges.The Supreme Court did not explain its reasons for the decisions The parents went to the Supreme Court after the 4th District Court of Appeal ruled in May that Henderson Behavioral Health, Inc., cannot be held liable in the shooting.The parents alleged that the mental-health facility was negligent, at least in part, for failing to prevent Cruz from being mainstreamed into the public-school system and for failing to warn about dangers posed by Cruz, a former Marjory Stoneman Douglas student at the time of the shooting.But in the Pollack case, the appeals court said the “theories of liability are undermined by Florida law establishing that a criminal attack on third parties by an outpatient mental health patient is not within the foreseeable zone of risk created by the mental health provider. Florida law does not recognize a duty of mental health providers to warn third parties that a patient may be dangerous.”Meadow Pollack was one of 17 students and faculty members who were killed Feb. 14, 2018, at the Parkland school, while Anthony Borges was one of 17 others who were wounded. Cruz is awaiting trial on murder charges.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A Florida school district wants the families of students and staff slain in a 2018 high school massacre to turn over their social media posts from that period, saying it needs them as part of its defense against the families’ lawsuits accusing it of negligence. The district cited multiple lawsuits in which judges found social media postings were relevant for the defense, including lawsuits against local governments. “Such postings are clearly relevant,” school district attorney Eugene Pettis wrote in a motion demanding the posts, according to the South Florida SunSentine l. “Defendants are entitled to discover whether the plaintiffs have made any comments on social media regarding” the shooting. Cruz had a long history of emotional and behavioral problems and his social media posts have been presented as evidence. In addition to the school district, Cruz, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office and its former deputy, Scot Peterson, who was stationed at the school, and others are facing multiple lawsuits.

TAVARES The Lake County School Board began reviewing board policies Monday, giving staff direction on where it would like to see edits in the coming year. In that case, board members opted to make sure policy for early warning systems covered all students, and didnt stop at high school. The relatively tame review is just the start of the boards annual process, which will continue in the coming weeks to cover every aspect of running a school district. Graduation rates and state assessment scores have been on an upward trend as the district and School Board have continued to hone policies. School Board member Marc Dodd commented at the end of the meeting about how smoothly it had gone compared to previous policy reviews.

For the first time since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in 2018, Florida lawmakers failed to pass legislation addressing school safety. The measure (HB 7065) incorporated several recommendations from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission and a statewide grand jury impaneled last year to investigate whether school districts were complying with school safety laws enacted after the Parkland shooting. Votes on policy issues, such as the school safety measure, concluded shortly before midnight Friday. Senate President Bill Galvano, who pushed a sweeping school safety measure in the weeks following the 2018 shooting in Broward County, blamed the bills failure to pass this year on differences between the two chambers. A lot of these issues, the school districts are starting to address them on their own.

At the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee, Giordano crossed paths Thursday with Lori Alhadeff, who lost her 14-year-old daughter Alyssa in the Parkland school shooting. Giordano and Alhadeff are linked over their grief of losing children and working to get lawmakers to make schools safer, albeit in different ways. Alhadeff was back to urge lawmakers to require panic buttons at schools to more quickly summon for help. Ron DeSantis, public schools would be required to have a tub or other large container filled with cold water at the sidelines during all games and practices. The proposed law would also require schools to train personnel on how to recognize signs of heat-related ailments, including potentially deadly heat strokes, and to take life-saving actions.

At the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee, Giordano crossed paths Thursday with Lori Alhadeff, who lost her 14-year-old daughter Alyssa in the Parkland school shooting. Giordano and Alhadeff are linked over their grief of losing children and working to get lawmakers to make schools safer, albeit in different ways. Alhadeff was back to urge lawmakers to require panic buttons at schools to more quickly summon for help. Ron DeSantis, public schools would be required to have a tub or other large container filled with cold water at the sidelines during all games and practices. The proposed law would also require schools to train personnel on how to recognize signs of heat-related ailments, including potentially deadly heat strokes, and to take life-saving actions.

But the measures (HB 23, SB 70) have been crafted to require that the alarms be on a mobile phone application that connects with law enforcement. The partnership already is being used by a dozen Florida school districts, allowing teachers and school staff although, not students to connect with first responders for everything from a school safety threat to medical emergencies. Florida supporters of the mobile phone app warn that other alarm models would cost millions more to install and take years to get up and running. Looking to quell the controversy, Rep. Chris Latvala, R-Clearwater, is now proposing an amendment which could be taken up Thursday by the House that would drop the mobile app requirement from the statewide panic alarm measure. But the mobile phone app has its supporters.

FORT LAUDERDALE A California man who is on the autism spectrum was sentenced Monday to more than five years in prison for cyberstalking families of Parkland school shooting victims. Fleury was convicted by a jury in October of three counts of cyberstalking and one count of transmitting a kidnapping threat. On Fleury's electronic devices, authorities also found thousands of saved images of Bundy, images of the targeted victims and screenshots of the messages that he had sent the victims. Meanwhile, Cruz, 21, faces the death penalty if convicted in the Parkland shooting. His lawyers have said he would plead guilty in exchange for a life prison sentence, but prosecutors have rejected the offer.

A California man was sentenced Monday to more than five years in prison for cyberstalking families of Parkland, Florida, school shooting victims. Fleury was convicted by a jury in October of three counts of cyberstalking and one count of transmitting a kidnapping threat. On Fleury's electronic devices, authorities also found thousands of saved images of Bundy, images of the targeted victims and screenshots of the messages that he had sent the victims. Meanwhile, Cruz, 21, faces the death penalty if convicted in the Parkland shooting. His lawyers have said he would plead guilty in exchange for a life prison sentence, but prosecutors have rejected the offer.

In arguing for dismissal, Cowart contended that the photo and caption did not threaten to kill or injure the student, identified in Fridays ruling by the initials Z.M., and that the law governing the issue violated his constitutional right to free expression. While the circuit judge dismissed the charge, the appeals court said Z.M. testified about feeling threatened.It was undisputed that the Snap was a photograph of a scoped AR-15 rife with an extended, large-capacity magazine and was captioned, Show and Tell@ NM on Monday, said the six-page ruling by appellate judges Jay Cohen, F. Rand Wallis and John Harris.The state noted that Z.M. testified under oath that he felt on edge after receiving the Snap and did not believe that the Snap was a joke; he was concerned, especially given the recent school shootings in the country, and believed Cowart was going to bring a gun to the school and shoot it up the following Monday. The reasonableness of Z.M.s alarm was further supported by the fact that several other NMHS students who saw the Snap were also concerned and contacted the school resource officer regarding the matter.

A Florida Senate committee begins work on improving school security and oversight following a critical grand jury report on how districts are implementing law approved after Parkland. Ron DeSantis, concluded that many school districts still had security plans "held together with nothing more than chewing gum, duct tape and hope." Many of the issues mentioned in the grand jury report are addressed in the bill advanced Tuesday. But the legislation provides no additional money to school districts, which have been complaining about the cost of the security measures since they were proposed in 2018. One change proposed by a Polk County university instructor, Robert Pincus, would have lawmakers require school districts to have school counselors devote at least 80 percent of their day to actual counseling.

A Florida Senate committee begins work on improving school security and oversight following a critical grand jury report on how districts are implementing law approved after Parkland. Ron DeSantis, concluded that many school districts still had security plans "held together with nothing more than chewing gum, duct tape and hope." Many of the issues mentioned in the grand jury report are addressed in the bill advanced Tuesday. But the legislation provides no additional money to school districts, which have been complaining about the cost of the security measures since they were proposed in 2018. One change proposed by a Polk County university instructor, Robert Pincus, would have lawmakers require school districts to have school counselors devote at least 80 percent of their day to actual counseling.

A Florida Senate committee begins work on improving school security and oversight following a critical grand jury report on how districts are implementing law approved after Parkland. Ron DeSantis, concluded that many school districts still had security plans "held together with nothing more than chewing gum, duct tape and hope." Many of the issues mentioned in the grand jury report are addressed in the bill advanced Tuesday. But the legislation provides no additional money to school districts, which have been complaining about the cost of the security measures since they were proposed in 2018. One change proposed by a Polk County university instructor, Robert Pincus, would have lawmakers require school districts to have school counselors devote at least 80 percent of their day to actual counseling.

Nearly two years after a six-minute shooting spree at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School left 17 people dead and 17 others injured, the issue of school security continues to gnaw at Florida lawmakers. Simply put, any law the Legislature writes addressing school safety, statistical reporting or harm mitigation is meaningless unless someone is given a mandate to ensure compliance, the grand jury wrote in December. The scathing report has put pressure on lawmakers to do more about school safety as they head into the 2020 legislative session next week. However, he agreed with the grand jury that the education department should have more oversight power. In addition to the grand jurys report, a push to require panic button phone apps for all school districts is gaining traction.

People are brought out of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a shooting at the school that killed 17 people on February 14, 2018 in Parkland, Florida. A state commission tasked with making school-safety policy recommendations to the Florida Legislature approved a draft report on Thursday that will highlight a need for more mental health funding. The report, crafted by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission, is expected to be finalized and sent to Gov. Commissioners had already made a number of recommendations to Florida lawmakers that focused on mental health, including a request for more money, based on a finding that the state's "mental health system is not adequately funded." Other recommendations made by the commission include changes to the controversial school "guardian" program, which was created after the Parkland shooting.

Copyright 2019 CNN(CNN) - As of Oct. 1, some Florida teachers can carry firearms on campus. The measure is part of a controversial bill Florida Gov. The bill authorizes school districts to implement at least one school-safety officer per public school. Some districts already arm teachers; others have banned itArming teachers was already legal in some school districts before the mass shooting in Parkland. The Florida bill entered effect on the second anniversary of the mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed 58 people.

TALLAHASSEE In the wake of two mass shootings over the weekend, Florida Senate President Bill Galvano ordered a review Monday of factors leading to such murderous sprees and opened the door to action by state lawmakers. The Florida Senate will work even harder to ensure that safety, he added. When lawmakers return to the Capitol next month for the beginning of committee meetings in advance of the 2020 legislative session, set to begin in January, Galvano wants senators to better understand the various factors involved in mass shootings. Gunmen in the weekend shootings, which left 31 people dead, used assault-style weapons. Total support from the fed govt should mean more than investigating mass shootings after they happen, Deutch posted.

Ryan Servaites, Delaney Tarr and Trevor Wild speak with CBS News' Adriana Diaz. Lawmakers aren't listening, but this is quite literally life or death," Tarr said. Tarr, along with 16-year-old Ryan Servaites and 21-year-old Trevor Wild invited CBS News to their headquarters in Florida. "Students are sick and tired of planning vigils ... these are 15, 16, 17-year-olds ... and they're experts at vigil planning," Wild said. "Every time we see another shooting, it's this mixture of defeat, of anger, of renewed spirit," Tarr explained.

Calls from the media flooded the home of Nikolas Marciel Cruz after a gunman opened fire at the school on Feb. 14, 2018, killing 17 and injuring many more. Nikolas Marciel Cruz lives in Sunrise, which neighbors Parkland, where Stoneman Douglas is located. It was the first of many instances where her son was confused for the teen allegedly responsible for the shooting, who authorities identified as Nikolas Jacob Cruz. Oh my god! the man exclaimed after Nikolas Marciel Cruz introduced himself, Moran said. And though Nikolas Marciel Cruz, who has high-functioning autism, plans to keep his first name, he wants a chance to start anew when he begins college, where he plans to study history, his mother said.

The suspect in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Nikolas Cruz, makes a court appearance on a closed-circuit television screen during a bond hearing on Feb. 15, 2018. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A security guard has testified that Nikolas Cruz was such a threat when he attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that he was searched for weapons every morning. Cruz is accused of returning to the Parkland, Florida, school on Valentine's Day 2018 and killing 14 students and three educators. The South Florida SunSentinel reports Kevin Greenleaf testified that 20-year-old Cruz was barred from bringing a backpack on campus after talking of suicide and writing "kill" in a notebook. Andy Pollack tells the newspaper he never would have sent his child to school had he known about Cruz.

click to enlarge Adobe StockA California attorney urged a federal appeals court Monday to reject a lawsuit filed by prominent National Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer over emails sent after the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County.Lawrence Sorensen, an attorney and mediator, sent emails to Hammer that contained photos showing injuries from gunshot wounds. Hammer, the NRAs longtime Florida lobbyist, filed a lawsuit against Sorensen and three unrelated men, alleging that emails she received were harassing and threatening.U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle in November dismissed the case against Sorensen on First Amendment grounds. Hammer appealed to the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but a lawyer for Sorensen filed a 32-page brief Monday urging the court to uphold Hinkles dismissal of the case.In part, the brief contended that Hammer, a former national president of the NRA, is a public figure and that Sorensens emails are protected by free speech.The photographs are real, and, in this case, they were sent to induce a public figure (perhaps the most significant public figure on this issue) to change her position or at least consider the damage that can be done by the products she promotes, the brief said.One cannot escape the reality that there is an ongoing public debate pertaining to the wisdom of regulating such high powered weapons.

The Florida issues include the Parkland school shooting and guns, sea level rise and climate change, and immigration. Miami hosted the first Democratic presidential debate Wednesday and the candidates tackled a number of issues that have special resonance in Florida, including guns, climate change and immigration. The debate moderators invoked last years shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where 17 people died, in raising the issue of gun violence. U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar argued that the Parkland movement has led older generations to rethink the gun issue. ORourke said the federal government should be working to curb carbon emissions, but also on protecting communities such as Miami that will be impacted by climate change.

Miami hosted the first Democratic presidential debate Wednesday and the candidates tackled a number of issues that have special resonance in Florida, including guns, climate change and immigration. The debate moderators invoked last years shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where 17 people died, in raising the issue of gun violence. U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar argued that the Parkland movement has led older generations to rethink the gun issue. ORourke said the federal government should be working to curb carbon emissions, but also on protecting communities such as Miami that will be impacted by climate change. We in our administration are gonna fund resiliency in those communities, in Miami, in Houston Texas, those places that are on the front lines of climate change today, he said.

(Reuters) - A Florida sheriff has fired two more deputies, alleging that they failed to take action to stop the 2018 massacre of 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. The deputies, Edward Eason and Josh Stambaugh, were terminated for neglecting their duty during the Feb. 14, 2018 shootings, Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony said on Wednesday. In addition to the fatalities, 17 people were wounded in the assault in Parkland, Florida. Two Broward County deputies, Scot Peterson and Brian Miller, were previously accused of neglecting their duty during the shootings. No disciplinary action will be taken against the remaining three deputies, Tony said.

Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony holds a news conference to announce the completion of the internal affairs investigation following the Feb. 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Two additional deputies have been fired as a result of an internal affairs investigation into the response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that killed 17 people, the Broward County sheriff said Wednesday. At a brief news conference, Sheriff Gregory Tony said deputies Edward Eason and Josh Stambaugh were fired Tuesday for their inaction following the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting. A state investigative commission found that Stambaugh was working an off-duty shift at a nearby school when he responded to reports of shots fired at the school. Two other deputies were fired earlier this month for neglect of duty. The sheriff said no action was taken on three other deputies who were involved in the investigation.

Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony said two additional deputies have been fired as a result of an internal affairs investigation into the agency's response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that killed 17 people in February 2018. Tony said during a news conference Wednesday morning that deputies Edward Eason and Josh Stambaugh were fired Tuesday for their inaction. Two other deputies were fired earlier this month for neglect of duty. The case against former Parkland deputy accused of inaction during shootingVideo showed Peterson staying outside a school building during the massacre, drawing national outrage. Tony said no action was taken against three other deputies and said the department is moving forward with making changes to officer training.

Many school district and county leaders in Central Florida said they're working to have multiple armed guards in the high schools. Below is a county-by-county breakdown of how schools are budgeted for the SRO program. The starting salary for a guardian is $32,000 while the starting salary for a deputy is $36,000. The SRO budget for 2019-2020 not yet finalized but is expected to be about $5 million. The total budget for the SRO program is $8.3 million, which includes training, salaries, purchasing vehicles and more.

Walkouts were reported Wednesday at Hagerty High School, Lake Mary High School, Oviedo High School, University High School in Orange City and Lyman High School, among other schools across the state. Video showed students sitting on the ground outside of University High School in Orlando chanting "What do we want? Officials from Volusia County Schools said more than 2,000 students participated in a walk out at University High School in Orange City. Seminole County School DistrictWhile the district isn't organizing the event, officials have been made aware and school administrators have been notified. The principal at University High School in Orange City estimates more than 2,000 students participate.