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Unified Champion Schools is in collaboration with Unified Interscholastic Sports and Activities. The Unified Interscholastic Sports rules for track and field and basketball can be found by clicking here. states, the District of Columbia and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The Special Olympics Texas UCS program is celebrating over 15 years and is active on hundreds of campuses. There are currently over 7,600 schools in 49 U.S. This is accomplished by bringing together students with and without intellectual disabilities to create accepting school environments, utilizing three interconnected components: Special Olympics Unified Sports®, inclusive youth leadership, and whole school engagement. Heibel said the school increased its security nevertheless after social media posts about a possible school shooting “circulated quite extensively.Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools® is an opportunity for schools pre-K through university level to intentionally promote meaningful social inclusion. Just last month, the school’s principal, Jake Heibel, told parents in a letter posted on the local news site The Bay Net that two students were interviewed after they were overheard mentioning a school shooting, and they were found to pose no threat. Threats against schools have proliferated as well, and Great Mills High has not been immune. Protests have been spreading around the nation since a teenager with an assault rifle killed 17 people at a Florida high school on Valentine’s Day. This latest shooting happened as many students are calling for action against gun violence in schools, leading up to Saturday’s March For Our Lives rally in the nation’s capital. Steny Hoyer tweeted that they’re monitoring reports and urged people to follow the instructions of local law enforcement at the scene. The county sheriff said parents or guardians should stay away, urging them to go instead to Leonardtown High School to reunite with Great Mills students there. Mary’s County Public Schools said the situation was “contained” after the shooting at Great Mills High School, which has about 1,600 students and is near the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, about 65 miles (104 kilometers) southeast of Washington.Īgents with the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives joined deputies at the scene.
