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A 28-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly enrolling at a Louisiana high school as a 17-year-old girl, authorities said. A 28-year- old woman has been arrested for allegedly posing as a 17-year- old student and attending a Louisiana high school , authorities said. Martha Jessenia Gutierrez-Serrano, 28, and her mother, Marta Elizeth Serrano-Alvarado, 46, both of Boutte, Louisiana, were each charged Tuesday with one count of injuring public records, the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office said. Serrano-Alvarado allegedly used a fraudulent passport and birth certificate to enroll her 28-year-daughter at Hahnville High School in Boutte during the 2022-2023 school year, according to the sheriff's office. Hanhville High School in Louisiana is seen in a Google Maps Street View in 2016. Google Maps Street View MORE: Headed to college? For many, student loan debt remains the only option School officials launched an investigation after getting "a tip that a female student, w...

A former North Carolina teacher claims he was fired in February after parents complained about him teaching the book "Dear Martin." A Charlotte, North Carolina, teacher is suing the charter school he used to work at after he claims he was fired after parents allegedly complained about him teaching a fictional book involving a racially profiled Black teen. Markayle Gray, a former English teach er at Charlotte Secondary School, claims in a civil lawsuit that was filed on Wednesday that he was terminated from his position as a 7th and 8th-grade teach er on Feb. 2 following backlash from parents over his teach ing of the 2017 young adult novel "Dear Martin." The 2017 New York Times bestselling novel by Nic Stone follows the story of a Black teenager who was thrown to the ground and handcuffed during an encounter with police. The Ivy League-bound teen writes 10 imaginary letters to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. imagining what the civil rights leader would have done in his p...

A juvenile suspect has been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting that occurred during a high school football game in Oklahoma on Friday, authorities said. A juvenile suspect has been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting that occurred during a high school football game in Oklahoma on Friday, authorities said. Oklahoma County Sheriff Tommie Johnson III said the arrest warrant was issued Tuesday evening and executed by his office without incident. The suspect's name is not being released at this time because he is a juvenile, the sheriff said during a press briefing Wednesday. MORE: UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member killed, suspect in custody after campus lockdown Johnson did not have any information on the charges in the warrant or the suspect's alleged role in the shooting at Choctaw High School, which left a teenager dead and several others injured. ABC News has reached out to the Choctaw Police Department, which is investigating the shooting. Gunfire erupted d...

The teen is dealing with in-school-suspension because he will not cut his hair. A Black Texas high school student has been facing an in-school suspension (ISS) for weeks because school officials said that his dreadlocks violated their dress and grooming code. Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, has been sitting on a small stool at school every school day since Aug. 31, back aching, as he receives his schoolwork online or through a classmate, according to his mother Darresha George. "Every day my son comes home with tears in his eyes. He's frustrated; he's outraged, aggravated, and it's breaking him down mentally, physically and emotionally," Darresha George told ABC News. "I have to see him taking ibuprofen because his back hurts." MORE: Activists push for anti-discrimination laws focused on natural hair on 'Crown Day' Darryl George's schoolwork and grades are being affected because he is not getting the ...

Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley will appear in court where a judge will decide whether he could be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley is set to learn in a court hearing Friday whether he can serve life in prison without the possibility of parole . The hearing -- called a Miller hearing -- is being held due to Crumbley's age. He was just 15 at the time of the shooting, and juveniles convicted of first-degree murder in the state of Michigan cannot automatically be sentenced to life in prison without parole , like adults. A separate hearing will be held in December for his sentencing. MORE: Oxford school shooting victim offers emotional testimony on seeing classmates shot: 'I just prayed' Crumbley pleaded guilty to killing four students and wounding seven others at a Michigan high school in November 2021. The hearing began in July when victims of the Michigan shooting gave emotional testimony in ...

The Michigan Supreme Court has turned down an appeal and cleared the way for the parents of the Oxford High School shooter to face trial on involuntary manslaughter charges DETROIT -- The parents of a teenager who killed four students at Michigan's Oxford High School lost an appeal Tuesday and will face trial on involuntary manslaughter charges, a rare case of prosecutors attempting to pin some responsibility for a school shooting on the perpetrator's family. James and Jennifer Crumbley are accused of making a gun accessible to Ethan Crumbley and ignoring his mental Health needs. The state appeals court said in March that the couple could face trial , and the Michigan Supreme Court let that decision stand in a one-sentence order. Prosecutors in suburban Detroit had to show only that there was probable cause to put the parents on trial, a low threshold at this stage. The appeals court noted that an Oakland County jury will hear a more expansive case from all sides. The shoote...

High school students from Long Island, New York, were on their way to band camp when their bus rolled over and crashed. At least two adults died when a bus carrying high school students from Long Island, New York, crash ed while heading to band camp in Pennsylvania, state police said. Dozens were hurt in Thursday's rollover accident in Orange County, which is about 60 miles north of New York City, officials said. At least five children were in critical condition as of Thursday evening, according to a state police spokesman. A bus rolled over and crashed in Orange County, New York. WABC The bus, carrying students from Farmingdale High School, rolled over and slid off Interstate 84 down into a 50-foot ravine around 1:12 p.m., New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said. MORE: Bus carrying locals and migrants crashes in Mexico, killing 16 The two adult passengers, identified as Beatrice Ferrara, 77, from Farmingdale, New York and Gina Pellettiere, 43, of Massapequa, were killed, state police of...

A group of parents, faith leaders and a nonprofit public education group are suing to stop Oklahoma from funding what would be the nation's first religious public charter school OKLAHOMA CITY -- A group of parents, faith leaders and a public education nonprofit sued Monday to stop Oklahoma from establishing and funding what would be the nation’s first religious public charter school. The lawsuit filed in Oklahoma County District Court seeks to stop taxpayer funds from going to the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School. The Statewide Virtual Charter School Board voted 3-2 last month to approve the application by the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City to establish the school, and the board and its members are among those listed as defendants. The vote came despite a warning from Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general that such a school would violate both state law and the Oklahoma Constitution. The Rev. Lori Walke, senior minister at Mayflower Congregational Church in Okl...

The law would also force stores to issue a recall on past books sold to schools that fall under a "sexually explicit" rating. Booksellers in Texas say they're preparing for an unprecedented workload under a new law that requires these vendors to analyze and rate books that they consider to be "sexually explicit" in their judgment. The law would force stores to issue a recall on past books sold to schools that have newly been rated as "sexually explicit" and refuse to sell these books to schools moving forward. Several booksellers and publishers in the state claim the law is anti-business and have filed suit against Martha Wong of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Keven Ellis of the Texas Board of Education and Commissioner of Education Mike Morath. MORE: Library chief breaks down challenge to Arkansas obscenity law allowing prosecution of librarians The plaintiffs argue that the book restrictions violate the First and 14th Amendments to ...

A school bus crashed on a highway in Idaho on Friday, authorities said. A school bus carrying 30 YMCA summer camp kids crash ed on Friday on an Idaho highway, according to police. All 30 kids were taken to local hospitals "in an abundance of caution," according to Idaho state police, 11 were injured and seven deemed critical. The kids' ages ranged from 13 to 18 years old, according to police, The incident occurred on State Highway 55 near milepost 84 in Boise County at around 3 p.m. local time, authorities said. This was one of four buses for the summer camp program, according to police the other three were not involved with the crash . Idaho State Police said they are investigating the crash and it's currently unknown what caused the crash. Multiple agencies responded to assist with the crash . Rescue apparatus are on scene, according to the Valley County Sheriff's Office. A stretch of the highway is expected to be closed in both directions for several hours i...