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KWCH 12 Eyewitness News | May 30, 2013
Wichita public school administrators have not made a decision on the future of a teacher who brought a gun to school. Dan Nagel's family members tell Eyewitness News the White Elementary teacher was expected to be fired Thursday. But USD 259 will not be making a decision about his employment until Nagel's court case is finalized. Nagel was arrested in May after another employee reported seeing the teacher with a gun. He said he has a conceal carry permit and brought the gun to protect students.
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by John Boyd and KWCH 12 Eyewitness News | May 24, 2013
A Maize High School teacher made his first appearance in court Friday. Prosecutors charged James Stiverson with one count of making a criminal threat. He accused of making threats against a school administrator during a Maize High School soccer game. According to the complaint, he unlawfully threatened to commit violence and communicated with the intent to place fear towards the assistant principal of Maize High. The court complaint doesn't give any specific information.
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by Brian Heap and Factfinder 12 Investigator | May 24, 2013
With clipboard in hand, Kimberly Lowmiller trolled garage sales in a west Wichita neighborhood Friday. She wasn't looking for bargains. She was looking for signatures. "My friend, Daniel. I don't know if you heard about him on the news," she said to a stranger. Lowmiller asked Wichitans to sign a petition to keep her friend Daniel Nagel employed as a teacher. Nagel was suspended earlier this week after another employee at White Elementary saw him with a gun. "We all have brain farts, you know and do silly things," Lowmiller said. "I think his heart was in the right place.
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by Eyewitness News and KWCH 12 Eyewitness News | May 23, 2013
Clearwater Middle School teacher Cathleen Balman will spend three years on probation for having sex with a former student. Balman pleaded guilty to felony charges of taking indecent liberties with a child in February. She was arrested in October 2011, then five days later fired from her job as a language arts teacher. Authorities say she had a year-long relationship with a student, who is now in high school.
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by Kim Hynes and KWCH 12 Eyewitness News | May 21, 2013
A Wichita elementary school teacher is on paid suspension after being arrested for bringing a gun to school. Daniel Nagel, 31, was arrested Monday after another employee at White Elementary called 911 and reported seeing a teacher had a gun. A family member tells Eyewitness News Nagel brought the gun to protect the students and never intended to do any harm. The family member says Nagel does have a concealed carry permit. However, Wichita Police say it wouldn't make any difference because schools are a gun free zone.
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Melissa Scheffler and KWCH 12 Eyewitness News | May 20, 2013
A popular Cowley College teacher is in critical condition at Wesley. The Cowley College Theatre Director is known for filling seats and even taking the stage. A picture shows Scott MacLaughlin as "Danny" in "Grease" when he started teaching at Cowley in 1996. "I love him to death. He's like a second dad for me,” Kristen Boxman said. Boxman feels like several students. She was MacLaughlin's high school intern last semester. Boxman heard about his accident Sunday. "In the middle of the rain and the hail and the wind, I ran out to my car and I went home because I just needed to be by myself,” Boxman said.
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by Jade DeGood and KWCH 12 Eyewitness News | May 16, 2013
Doors were locked at Newton High School Thursday. School officials say it was a precaution after one of their teachers was arrested Wednesday. According to Newton Police, 45-year-old Eden Bloom was asked to leave the school several times before a School Resource Officer arrested her. That's when they found methamphetamine in her possession. “At the time of the incident no students were in danger,” said Newton Police Deputy Chief Eric Murphy. Newton parents received an alert on Thursday afternoon around 1:30 that there was increased security at the school.
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By Robert Marin & Alejandra Rojas and KWCH 12 Eyewitness News | May 13, 2013
A man who taught math at Dodge City Middle School faces 13 counts of sexual exploitation of a child. Joshua Lesser made his first appearance in court last week. Lesser taught sixth to eighth grade math at the middle school. The judge ordered Lesser to stay away from places where children may be unsupervised, school grounds, arcades, pools, playgrounds, parks, malls or movie theaters. His bond also prohibits him from using a computer, unless he is e-mailing his attorney.
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by John Boyd and KWCH 12 Eyewitness News | May 6, 2013
A Winfield High School teacher is on administrative leave. The Cowley County Attorney is investigating accusations of improper sexual contact with students. Winfield's Superintendent J.K. Campbell confirms they placed a teacher on paid administrative leave while the matter is under investigation, but did not offer any more information about what happened. Stay with Eyewitness News for any new developments as they become available.
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by Brian Heap and Factfinder 12 Investigator | April 28, 2013
The nation's school districts continue to search for ways to respond and train for school shootings. From the Columbine shooting in 1999, to the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, schools have learned from violent gun events and improved their safety plans. FactFinder 12 Investigators learned some schools outside Kansas are going well beyond the current standard approach of locking down in place and putting more control in the hands of teachers and students. In McCook, Nebraska, about five hours northwest of Wichita, the public schools have adopted a controversial security program called ALICE.