Above & Beyond: Celebrating the 2026 Santa Barbara County Classified School Employees of the Year

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SBCEO recognizes the dedicated individuals from schools across our county who make campuses safe, beautiful, and welcoming spaces  Classified school employees are often the first to welcome students to school […]

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Carbajal, Moore Lead Bipartisan Effort to Support Transit Infrastructure in Mid‑Sized Cities

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U.S. Representatives Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24) and Blake Moore (R-UT-01) introduced the bipartisan Medium Transit Intensive Cities (MTIC) Authorization Act, a bill to provide more federal support for transportation infrastructure in medium-sized […]

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Funcionaria escolar ignoró advertencias de que un niño tenía un arma antes de dispararle a una maestra, dice fiscal en juicio

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Por Eric Levenson, CNN

Ebony Parker, quien se desempeñó como subdirectora de una escuela primaria de Virginia, no tomó ninguna medida tras escuchar varias advertencias de maestros de que un alumno de 6 años podría tener un arma de fuego, dijeron los fiscales en sus declaraciones de apertura de su juicio penal el martes.

“Solo había una persona en la escuela ese día que tenía tanto la autoridad para actuar como el conocimiento de la crisis en curso, y esa persona ustedes verán que era la Dra. Parker”, dijo el fiscal adjunto de la Commonwealth, Josh Jenkins.

En contraste, el abogado defensor de Parker replicó que Abby Zwerner, la maestra a la que el niño le disparó, pudo haber tenido sospechas de que había un arma de fuego, pero no actuó como si hubiera una crisis o un peligro inminente.

“Ella no actuó como si hubiera un arma presente”, dijo el abogado defensor Curtis Rogers. “Así que si ella pensaba que había un arma presente, entonces sus acciones deberían haber sido separar al niño… de sus compañeros de clase, o separar a los compañeros de clase (del niño). Ella no lo hizo”.

Las narrativas contrapuestas marcaron el inicio del juicio de Parker por ocho cargos de delito grave de abuso infantil y desprecio por la vida, uno por cada bala en el arma que utilizó el alumno. Los fiscales alegan que cometió “un acto u omisión deliberados en el cuidado de dichos estudiantes, de una manera tan grave, temeraria y culpable como para demostrar un desprecio imprudente por la vida humana”, según documentos judiciales.

Los cargos se derivan del tiroteo de enero de 2023 en la escuela primaria Richneck, en Newport News, Virginia, en el que el niño de 6 años, conocido como “JT”, llevó un arma a la escuela y le disparó a Zwerner, una maestra de primer grado, en el pecho y la mano.

Zwerner sobrevivió y subió al estrado el martes como la primera testigo de la fiscalía.

El juicio penal contra Parker es uno de varios casos en años recientes que han puesto a prueba los límites de quién es responsable cuando un menor lleva a cabo un tiroteo escolar. Padres en Michigan y Georgia han sido condenados por cargos graves, mientras que agentes del orden acusados de inacción en Parkland y Uvalde han sido absueltos por jurados.

Parker parece ser la primera educadora escolar en enfrentar un juicio en estas circunstancias.

Los fiscales alegan que Parker estaba al tanto de los problemas disciplinarios continuos del alumno, incluido un intento de estrangular a su maestra, Susan White, el año escolar anterior. Además, en las horas previas al tiroteo, varios maestros le dijeron a Parker que el niño podría tener un arma, pero Parker no tomó ninguna medida y aconsejó no registrar al niño en busca de un arma, según los fiscales.

Parker se ha declarado inocente de los cargos. Cada cargo se considera un delito grave de clase 6, castigado con hasta cinco años de prisión. Se espera que el juicio dure unos tres días.

El niño había tomado el arma, que no estaba asegurada, del bolso de su madre y la llevó a la escuela en su mochila, han dicho funcionarios.

Tras el hecho, varios funcionarios escolares perdieron sus empleos: Parker renunció dos semanas

Trump endorses Paxton, upending Senate GOP plans in Texas race

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President Donald Trump walks with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

By Patrick Svitek, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his primary challenge to Sen. John Cornyn, dealing a massive blow to the incumbent with major implications in the fight for the Senate majority.

Cornyn has spent over a year courting Trump’s support, while Paxton has run to Cornyn’s right and pitched himself as a stronger ally of the president. Cornyn and Senate GOP leaders argued that he is a stronger general-election candidate as Democrats look to win statewide office in Texas for the first time since 1994.

The runoff is a week away, and early voting began Monday.

“I know Ken well, have seen him tested at the highest and most difficult levels, and he is a WINNER!” Trump said in a lengthy Truth Social post.

“John Cornyn is a good man, and I worked well with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough,” he added, appearing to reference how Cornyn hesitated to support Trump in his 2024 campaign.

Cornyn said in the spring of 2023 that he thought Trump’s “time has passed him by,” though the Texas senator eventually endorsed the president after he won the New Hampshire primary.

Trump’s intervention in the runoff comes at a high-profile moment for his dominance within the GOP. Earlier this month, he helped unseat a group of Indiana state lawmakers who resisted his push for mid-decade redistricting. On Saturday, Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy lost his primary, five years after he voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment. And on Tuesday, Trump is working to defeat one of his biggest GOP critics in Congress — Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky — in his primary.

Democrats have been eyeing the Texas Senate seat in their uphill battle to capture the chamber majority, and the state becomes particularly enticing if the scandal-plagued Paxton defeats Cornyn. The state’s Democrats resolved their primary on March 3, picking a well-funded standard-bearer in state Rep. James Talarico.

While Trump stayed out of the GOP primary, which also featured Rep. Wesley Hunt, he quickly raised expectations for an endorsement in the runoff.

The morning after Cornyn finished narrowly ahead of Paxton in the primary, Trump said he would make an endorsement “soon” and that he expected the other candidate to drop out. But Trump was frustrated that his plans to endorse Cornyn were shared with the press, and then stayed neutral for most of the runoff — signaling he had cooled on intervening in the intraparty battle.

In teasing his endorsement earlier Tuesday, Trump told CNN’s Alayna Treene he had “pretty much always known who I was going to endorse. I just thought this was a good time.”

Paxton said on X that he was “incredibly honored” to have Trump’s endorsement.

Appearing on “The Charlie Kirk Show” a short time after Trump promised an imminent endorsement, Paxton said he trusted the president to “make a good decision.”

“We all know that Donald Trump’s endorsement is the most significant endorsement in the country and maybe the most significant endorsement in my lifetime,” Paxton said.

Paxton, who has been attorney general since 2015, has made a political career out of his loyalty to Trump. He sued four bat

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