this young lady in high school, the president of clarkstown north high school in new york, she was entering her senior season as a volleyball player. she was told by her coach, hey, you will probably have a year with a lot of playing time. she showed up one day at tryouts and there was a biological man on her team. and she was told that, hey, this biological man on now the women's volleyball team is now going to have to basically take your spot. mary did not accept that. she fought the administration. she fought the powers to be and led a charge and said that men should not be in female sports. join me in celebrating and welcoming the recipient of our patriots student of the year award, mary. mary, come on out here. [applause] ♪ just amazing. now, we have our chapter of the year award. the legacy chapter of the year. our high school legacy chapter of the year. at turning point usa, we have over 1200 high school chapters across the country that organizing and fighting for our values. this is a very big honor. let me read this. the recipient is the tpusa at cedar valley high school in utah, o

to do what they don't want. >> that's why we provide scholarships for girls like faith to attend high schoolh msnbc and unicef to deliver desks like these like this one right here, the primary schools in malawi where the kids have never seen desks. the arrival of these desks creates an excitement in classrooms that they have never seen before one teacher told me it's like christmas morning and a new enthusiasm for attending school. these desks finally allow teachers to organize their classrooms the way they have always wanted to. you can help more girls finish high school by going to lastworddesks.msnbc.com and make a contribution in any amount and specify that your contribution is for desks or girls scholarships. you can make a gift in the name of anyone on your holiday gift list and unicef will send them an acknowledgment of your gift. most children's education in malawi ends in primary school. faith was able to attend high school because the kind fund includes that scholarship program for girls. faith is a senior in high school now and if faith makes it to college next year she will be th

toko's old high school now has 60 girls in attendance there thanks entirely to your generosity to thef to provide desks like this one to primary schools in malawi, where the kids have never seen desks, and provide scholarships for girls to attend high school in malawi. something happened in toko's first year of high school in malawi, which is called form 1, which suddenly sent toko in pursuit of another dream. >> when i came here, i didn't know what i wanted to become. but in my -- when i was in form 1 there were visitors from the malawi broadcasting corporation that interviewed us on a youth program on radio 1. and on that day i said i want to be a journalist. and i went to university to do journalism. so here i am. and in that journalism i am a photojournalist. and to come back to photograph the same classes that i sat in when i just dreamt of being a journalist and doing that work in that school in those same spaces, it means so much to me. and i hope the same for the girls that they'll be able to come back here in the capacity as whoever they want to be, to be able to put their sc

and they had it was a high school with one track and that was great athletes socially popular, headed for an ivy league school. and if you didn't fall into that track and very few people do, it was very easy for you feel lost and alone, alienated and. the weird thing, of course, is that the parent constructed a high school without one straight highway out of a belief that they were doing their kids a favor. and in fact what they were doing was creating a situation where a an large number of the kids who went there took their own lives and that, you know that notion i feel like this a really good example of how upper middle class culture. this society is in has has kind of gone off the rails in any number of ways. but you know the number of expected options that have been that have been burdened on teenagers, upper middle class teenagers is getting preposterous. and i separately i i've there was a there's a a woman named linda flanagan who wrote this book which i adore called taking back the game where she makes argument specific to sports, making really the same argument that. we we h

we are scheduled to visit the high school she graduated from before becoming part of our team. who are receiving k.i.n.d. fund scholarships at the school to tell us about their career dreams, and the first girl you will hear said she wants to be a journalist. >> i like school because i want my dreams to be fulfilled. >> might dreams are to become a journalist. >> when i finish school, i want to be a politician. >> i like school so that i can stand on my own and future and i want to be a surgeon doctor. >> journalist, politician, nurse, doctor. they have already achieved one big dream by attending high school and are aiming for even bigger dreams now. no one knows better how much your support of girls in malawi means to them. >> scholarships change lives. it changed mine so i hope more people donate to this fund so that more girls' dreams can come to reality and there is just hope for every other girl. i come from this district in the village and they made it out here to the city and from the city to come back to my village to work and not just work, to work on education religio

in malawi, where public high school is not free, and girls graduation rate from high school is lessm was the tuition fees to attend high school. she knew her family could not possibly afford to send her the high school, or even by her school uniform. >> i was part of the girls who benefited from the scholarships that the church offered. in this school. and luckily, i got selected to this school. at that time, when i came to school here, the school was just maybe a few years old. and they did not have many scholarships. they were missionaries that were here, and i was part of the girls who benefited from the scholarships that the church offered. in this school. and when i talk about scholarships, when we are talking about scholarships, i know exactly what it means. i know exactly how it was to turn my dreams into a reality. so when i looked at the girls, it felt like me a few years ago. and whatever dreams they say they have, i believe they would achieve them, because i was also a beneficiary of some scholarships and it made my dream come true. >> scholarships to make dreams come tru

when i met chisomo at her high school, she had received the highest scores on her exams of anyone in was the top testing student in her high school, but she almost didn't make it through high school because her father struggled to pay the school fees. >> when there was seven-day school, i was sent back home only once because of the school fees. so by that time i had to stay at home for most of one week and my father had to take a loan from a businessman to pay the school fees. >> the next year thanks to your generosity chisomo received a kind fund scholarship. >> i started receiving kind funds in 2021. the scholarship was so important to me because it provided me with many basic needs, school books, school uniforms, school shoes and books and also the kind fund paid my school fees throughout. >> you can help students like chisomo by going to lastworddesks@msnbc.com. you can make that gift in the name of anyone on your holiday gift list and unicef will send them a notification of your gift to them and your gift to the children of malawi. chisomo's test scores on her final exams called

if you think about the high school that most people went to, what made your high school a typical highwas the range of different social groups contained in the one building. my high school, and yours i am guessing, had jocks and nerds and the popular kids and the computer kids and the kids in drama, the kids who were the stoners, if you went to that high school, you could easily find a community that you felt comfortable with if you went there because of the inherent diversity, social diversity, of the school. poplar grove high school had no diversity, there was only one social group and that group was athletically gifted, popular, on your way to an elite school. you could not make it in that incredibly specific and demanding identity, you felt like you were a failure. the parents thought that by eliminating all of the kind of socially problematic social groups, they were providing a better environment for their kids, but they forgot that if you have only one social identity, and it is so demanding that everyone is forced to be the same, when a contagious element hits, it races uncheck

by the way, the knights ended up crushing snowflake high school 59 to 21 snowflake.re's always next time. >> oh, i mean, they must have been just so fired up after that entrance there. >> like they had to make up for it. >> yeah, exactly. next to a frightening moment for a bear in captivity. >> this happened at the san diego zoo. i'm headed there this weekend. by the way, the zoo's resident andean bear was apparently hamming it up for the crowd bouncing on a branch when the branch cracked and the bear tumbled to the ground. >> he's trying to break it, right. look. >> yeah, i mean, the crowd was concerned, but don't worry. the bear got up and walked over to his cave for a little rest. i think it just looks like it hurt more. yeah. actually, did i think the bears are big. >> let's get to our last story. because we want to catch a ride on the rudolph bus. >> this is happening in vancouver, canada. the city's transit line, translink, has fashioned what it calls a reindeer bus fleet. nine of them, to be exact. each named and fashioned after each of santa's eight tiny rein

we also provide scholarships for girls to attend high school where public high school is not free and that of boys. on this night a year ago, we introduced you to -- who was then in her last year of high school on a scholarship and hoping to attend college. >> i want to become a pharmacist . that is what i hope to do. or mcquaide you want to be a pharmacist? >> it is just my ambition. >> reporter: when did you decide? >> when i was -- >> reporter: were you in a pharmacy one day and thought i want to work here? >> yes. >> reporter: was that the first time you saw a pharmacy? >> yes. >> that is the way life is there. there are many ways to describe the limits of experience in the deprivations, including the simple visual fact that so many of the kids in elementary school do not own shoes. and another hint at what so many people do not have and do not experience is that simple fact that she never saw a pharmacy until she was in her first year of high school. none of us remember things like the first time we were in a supermarket or a restaurant or a pharmacy but if you have never been in

he's getting a diploma, a certificate of completion is something a student gets if he finishes high school but doesn't meet all the requirements to graduate. ibrahim and his mother were expecting that certificate so he could attend vocational school. his dream is to work with automobiles, he says. but according to this letter, the diploma meant ibrahim is now no longer eligible for those special education services through the district or county. i was sad because if i don't go to the adult school for them, what am i going to do for my future? college isn't an option, he says. even though school officials wrote that he earned his diploma, there's a problem he struggles with basic reading. i chatain understand the basics of the work. the system failed him. how can an 18 year old read at a second grade level? and how can a high school student who only reads at a second grade level have a transcript that's filled with a's and b's? we really failed him. this was one of ibrahim's teachers. she asked to remain anonymous to avoid retaliation. having worked with him, i know that he was reading at s

what's leigh high school say? was it a mistake they gave him this diploma, or did they get some sort of financial kickback from the state for issuing more diplomas? so the school. school officials are saying that he earned the diploma. they're saying his grades are up, that he he met these requirements. but ibrahim is telling us i'm reading at a second or third grade level, and we go more into the package in the story tonight about why the grades on his transcript don't reflect his actual education level. he himself and his mom say, i read it a second or third grade level. yeah. that's right. yet lee says, here's your diploma. and there has been a push for special ed inclusion. just two years ago, the governor signed a law that was called the special education inclusion act. actually interesting enough, sponsored by the santa clara county office of ed to make sure that special ed students go into regur classes to increase their graduation rates. nothing in that law says that schools should give grades or graduate s

. >> high school. rah ra ra high school. sis. boom bah has the mc5 so notably sang. chool in japan is different. they didn't give up on physical education, as we seem to have the thousand year old martial art of kendo for the way of the sword is still widely taught. boys and girls alike compete with bamboo swords, sensible stand ins for actual samurai swords. but the same thing man oh, kendo is scored by strikes against the wrist, head, torso or throat, each representing a blow. that would be bad news if handling an actual blade. ha ha very fast on the concept of kaizen improvement. central to the study of any martial art, it could be said, also applies to cooking at a high level. so it's no surprise that young masa once suited up for the same team at the same junior high school. he's trying to psych the kid, but i don't think it's going to work. frankly. on the other hand, i. >> hang yomi no. >> daddy somebody. who? >> you still got it, man looking good. face oh! >> woo! ha! no, i not at all. that's a no no. i thought. okay, awesome, man. >> fast inspiration. >> my j

and it was a high school with one track. and that was great athlete, socially popular, headed for an ivy league school. and if you didn't fall into that track, and very few people do, it was very easy for you to feel lost and alone and alienated. and the weird thing, of course, is that the parents constructed a high school with that one straight highway out of a belief that they were doing their kids a favor. and in fact, what they were doing was creating a situation where an unbelievably large number of the kids who went there took their own lives. and that -- you know, that notion. i feel like this is a really good example of how upper middle class culture in this society in america has kind of gone off the rails. in any number of ways. but you know, the number of expectations that had been -- that had been burdened on teenagers, upper middle class teenagers, is getting prepostrous. there's a woman named linda flanagan, who wrote this book, which i adore. she makes the argument specific to sports. we have ruined youth sport

in his first game back at ridgewood high school.the very next game, johnny breaks his high school's all time scoring record. just a few days before his 10th round of chemo. >> i didn't even think about it. honest. to be honest, i was kind of like, all right, it's cool, but i'm ready for the next game. i just want to keep playing. >> you just hope. >> yeah. honestly. that's it, i just hope. >> of course, johnny makes it look easy. but his comeback seemed improbable to those closest to him. he says his coach assured him that during his recovery, he was welcomed to stand on the sideline with the coaching staff. >> i was like, no, it's not going to happen. so kind of just knew i was playing from day one. >> now, he says they have a little fun with his diagnosis and practice teasing the players who can't keep up with johnny during sprints using taunts. kind of like, hey, what's your excuse? >> obviously it's very serious, but like after a point, i kind of just want to, like, joke about it a little bit. >> after another victory this week,

the growing trend of teaching priceless lessons in high school. >> checking accounts, investing, saving cover it all. >> norah: the "cbs evening news" starts now. ♪ ♪ good evening. i'm norah o'donnell, and thank you for joining us as we follow breaking news in the caught-on-camera execution of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson. a 26-year-old strong person of interest is under arrest on preliminary gun charges luigi mangione, he's a former prep school valedictorian, an ivy league engineer, was arrested this morning at a mcdonald's in altoona, pennsylvania, about 280 miles west of the murder scene in new york city. the charging documents say he got quiet and started shaking when asked if he was in new york recently. police say he was carrying multiple fake ids and a document allegedly detailing anger at corporate america. cbs news confirmed they also uncovered an online book review from the suspect, giving the unabomber ted kaczynski's writings four stars. cbs's lilia luciano leads us off tonight from the scene of that arrest. good evening, lilia. >> reporter: good evening, norah. this

army officer 3123 offense at san rafael high school. the demand was so high to create a girls flag football team. at the start of the school year, nearly 40 girls showed up to play. >> we started working with the district and administration so we can get the funding and just everything to form together, and then magically it happened at the beginning of the year. don't let the ball get behind you, teacher and coach shannon mcclure tells us. >> local artists and businesses helped the new team get footballs, design the uniforms and supply the flags. >> everything is really been kind of an uphill battle for us as a team. we've had to fight for everything and really just work to get what we needed. >> like a team so dedicated they practiced in their halloween costumes since august, the girls have played 12 games around the bay area. >> we haven't won one yet, but every time we go out, we are better freshmen and seniors alike. >> the team is a family for the range of ages. >> i'd say we're pretty close. >> the bulldogs followed in the footst

army officer 3123 offense at san rafael high school. the demand was so high to create a girls flag football team. at the start of the school year, nearly 40 girls showed up to play. >> we started working with the district and administration so we can get the funding and just everything to form together, and then magically it happened at the beginning of the year. don't let the ball get behind you, teacher and coach shannon mcclure tells us. >> local artists and businesses helped the new team get footballs, design the uniforms and supply the flags. >> everything is really been kind of an uphill battle for us as a team. we've had to fight for everything and really just work to get what we needed. >> like a team so dedicated they practiced in their halloween costumes since august, the girls have played 12 games around the bay area. >> we haven't won one yet, but every time we go out, we are better freshmen and seniors alike. >> the team is a family for the range of ages. >> i'd say we're pretty close. >> the bulldogs followed in the footste

the 40-year-old single mom of four dropped out of high school after having her first baby at 14. >> how rough was that? >> it was very, very difficult because i had to grow up early. had to learn more responsibility at that age. >> reporter: after years of struggling and working multiple jobs, she went back to high school through the library's program in 2022. >> i wouldn't have ever known about it if i had not came through here and find out about my high school diploma. >> reporter: developing innovative ways to stay relevant is a national trend for american libraries. in salt lake city the library has a sound booth to record your own albums n. chicago vending machines are stocked with hygiene kits to narcan. >> are there's nobody else doing this work. >> reporter: ground breaking work, improving lives like latita's. this spring she proudly accepted her high school diploma. >> you can accomplish so many things here. >> reporter: and so will many others thanks to rethinking a cultural institution to better seed their futures by giving them all the tools they need. them all the tools the

he's getting a diploma, a certitificate o completion is something a student gets if he finishes high school but doesn't meet all the requirements to graduate. ibrahim and his mother were expecting that certificate so he could attend vocational school. his dream is to work with automobiles, he says. but according to this letter, the diploma meant ibrahim is now no longer eligible for those special education services through the district or county. i was sad because if i don't go to the adult school for them, what am i going to do for my future? college isn't an option, he says. even though school officials wrote that he earned his diploma, there's a problem he struggles with basic reading. i chatain understand the basics of the work. the system failed him. how can an 18 year old read at a second grade level? and how can a high school student who only reads aa second grade level have a transcript that's filled with a's and b's? we really failed him. this was one of ibrahim's teachers. she asked to remain anonymous to avoid retaliation. having worked with him, i know that he was reading at sec

faith is a senior in high school now. to finish high school and go to college. her younger brothers and sisters are already encouraged by what they have seen her achieve. >> i have a family. we are five kids and i'm the first born. we have a mother only, five of us, and when my siblings see me, they get encouraged. they see how i'm going through my education. they get encouraged and they're telling me i also want to go to secondary school, as you did. >> the girls on kind fund scholarships at faith's high school gathered a few weeks ago to cheer for the kind fund. >> we are the girls. we are the girls. >> we are the girls. we are the girls. >> kind fund. >> again. >> kind fund. >> faith is hoping to go to college and study to be a nurse at the same university where joyce chizolli is currently studying medicine after graduating from high school on a kind fund scholarship. joyce has made several appearances on this program throughout her high school years and is thriving at university, as are other girls who managed to grad

they claimed a temporary admissions policy for the city's elite high schools discriminated against white and asian students. during covid, the boston school committee had temporarily dropped the entrance exam for its latin and math and science schools. the committee made the move, saying it was not safe to hold exams in person. instead, the committee used student performance and zip codes to weigh admission. this is the second time the court has declined to review a policy aimed at increasing diversity in public schools. last year, the high court ended consideration of race in college admissions. still ahead, some encouraging news from making it in the bay. more people feeling optimistic about the economy. reasons for the renewed faith and what experts are saying about your finances moving forward. and a gold medal rematch in the south bay. when and where you can see the olympic champion u.s. women's soccer for team yoursel. and i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. after that sunshine today we are tracking some rain chances. we'll have details on two different storms this week and what

(pensive music) i'm an english teacher at central high school. i teach juniors and sophomores.y have the right to monitor or discard books that don't align with their particular morals. this is why the books in question were presented as choices for seniors. the issue becomes overwhelming when parents and politicians begin using their beliefs and morals to monitor and discard books for other people's children. the people and the experiences in this book were extremely real. they opened up a world to me that i didn't have access to at the time, and i think it's important that we know and understand other people's experiences. we're seniors. we're 17 and 18. i voted three weeks ago. we're going out into this world, and i wanna know what's in this book. i wanna know what's in this book. as much as i loved reading "1984," or how much i hated reading "the taming of the shrew," (audience laughing) they don't speak to me the same way as an author who sits right here in front of me, showing me his world and his perspective. (audience cheering) i don't know what's in the water over here

we end up going to high school because i moved away from the school i met this young lady at.to that school because she's obsessed with me. that's not true? oh, did i tell you one thing about 27 years of marriage, you learn how to apologize quick. sorry. that is how you are successful. i find myself in high school, everything is going good. i'm caught up in my classes, i'm excelling in all my classes. i am still getting in trouble a lot. i have a really bad temper. at 15, i decide i will move out of the house and i found a room in a barn. people say you were raised in a barn, i say yes i was. i found myself in a barn. i am paying my own utilities, working every day. milking for a neighbor. hauling sheet rock during the day but still going to school on time. i'm cutting wood in the winter. i am doing everything i had to do to make money and pay for myself, and stay on top of my studies so i get a scholarship and i am wrestling. i'm focused. everything is going great. fast forward to my senior year, i have an impeccable record, getting recruited by schools all over the country.

she knew her family could not possibly afford to send her to high school or buy her a school uniform.ships that the church offered. luckily, i got selected to this school. at that time, when i came to school here, the school was maybe a few years old. they didn't have many scholarships. there were missionaries that were here and i was part of the girls who benefited from the scholarships that the church offered this school. when i talk about scholarships, talking about scholarships, i know exactly what it is, exactly how it was a bridge to turn my dreams into reality. when i looked at the girls, it felt like me a few years ago. whatever dreams they said they had, i believed that they would achieve them because i was beneficiary of scholarships and it made my dreams come true. >> scholarships do make dreams come true, i think we know that. her old high school has 60 girls in attendance thanks entirely to your generosity to the kind fund, the partnership i treated with msnbc and unicef to provide desks like this to primary schools in malawi where the kids have never seen desks . and pro

kirstin milks is dewayne's teacher at bloomington high school south.he's been refining this lesson over the last three years with help from ben kravitz and other scientists at indiana university. >> the fact is that climate change is the story of these young people's lives. it is already the story of where we live, it is the story of a state largely supported by agriculture. climate change is here and now and students need to know not just the stuff about it that is challenging and difficult, but also, they need to see how change can happen. they need to feel like they understand and can actually make a difference in our shared future. lee: indiana recently approved new standards that now require high school students in earth and space science to learn about human-caused climate change. many educators report they feel unprepared to teach climate change. a national survey in 2022 found that 56% of teachers only have the necessary resources some of the time or never. >> in a high water area -- lee: milks and climate scientists at indiana university devel

fortunately, no instruments were inside the trailer was stolen. >> it stays at the high school behindiler cut the locks and managed to get to where it is located and drove it off site. >> reporter: jennifer martinez, the band director tells us school staff and police are actively investigating who is behind all this. >> everything inside has been stripped out and there is nothing left inside , other than i think just tools and material that don't belong to us. >> reporter: after stealing it from campus, the suspect or suspects also managed to paint over the trailers logo. once realizing the trailer was gone, the band took to social media, asking the community for help. >> thanks to someone who give us a tip, we were able to come by and find our trailer. >> reporter: jennifer and fernando rushed to antioch to find their empty trailer abandoned about four miles away from pittsburg high school. >> it is something as a growing program, we really need. and the fact that someone would target a student program like that is sad. >> reporter: the legacy of the pittsburg high school marching sh

david: you played in high school, i assume you did well in high school.o you get drafted by the orioles. at what point when you are in the minor leagues, all the players play in the minor leagues, did you realize you weren't going to be an average player, you would be a super player, or did you not realize that in the beginning? cal: i was a second round draft pick by the orioles and 17. i turned 18 at the end of the summer. my birthday is august 24. i was playing a couple of months before my 18th birthday. when i first went away to play pro ball, you're pretty big fish in a small pond in high school, you thought you were pretty big. but then he would go and then you are part of a team. you look around and no longer you're not the big fish anymore. there was one shortstop that came out of texas a&m, he was like a six round pick for us that year and i was taking ground balls and doing stuff with them and he was light years ahead of me. he had a better arm, he was quicker on the transfer and i kept looking at him going, i'm never going to play. this guys to

damian: at your age, when you are--you're freshman in high school or about to go to high school?ou? melissa: i'm a freshman in high school. damian: so at your age, and i remember my freshman year in high school, a lot of the boys, and maybe some of the girls, aren't as focused into schooling as they should be. but talk about, maybe, what the cadet corps has done for you to stay focused in school and doing homework and, you know, participating in extracurricular activities and being not only a leader with the cadet corps but also with your school. melissa: really, sea cadets teaches me self-discipline, which helps me stay on top of my homework very often. you know, like, i can't just put this assignment back. i need to do it now so i can get extra credit or a good grade. and basically, that's it. it teach me a lot of self-discipline. damian: yeah, what do you see in that, tin tin, in what you're--what melissa is demonstrating so far with the cadet corps? tin tin: so very similar to the military, the cadets, they earn ribbons. and so every time they have an achievement, they add on

this is high school.graduation. how important is financial literacy? >> i unashamedly tell my students this is the most important course they will take. >> reporter: are you teaching investment, budget, bitcoin? >> anything that is about money. we talk about scams, insurance planning, decision-making budgeting, checking accounts investing, saving. we cover it all. >> reporter: 85% of high schoolers nationwide say they want to learn about financial topics. only ten states require the course, but by 2031, that's expected to jump to 26. >> we are on the brink of adulthood. >> reporter: john pelletier has been tracking the number of states requiring financial courses for more than a decade. >> they are entering that phase of life were not a day will go by where they don't think about money and how to make it, how to save it, how to spend it. >> reporter: students that take these classes learn more than just how to budget their money at the mall. studies show requiring financial education improves credit score

and one in high school where i had been kicked out of. three high schools, was finally allowed back in the southwest. and i will never forget her, she told me in history class my biggest problem was i didn't have anything to identify as a black male in the books. and she turned me on when alex haley was writing "roots." going into reader's digest because she had a contract with them, and he was putting them on albums and putting them in the library. she brought me in and she had me listen to it. i ask is there another one? she said he hadn't put one out yet, and i was going back to her class to get that next album. host: i do want to give a chance to respond because were also talking about finding literature where he can find himself. guest: absolutely. that one unforgettable teacher that introduces you to a book that allows you to be yourself. it is essential for all people, especially young black boys to see themselves identified in the stories where they can relate, they can grow, they can continue to ask questions. and i was so adaman

immersing high school students into the world of healthcare. the goal?help solve the healthcare worker shortage, with some estimates predicting a deficit of 100,000 workers by 2028. >> i'm curious. why do you think we're seeing such a shortage of healthcare workers? >> i hate to say this, but i think part of it is we're aging out. >> reporter: beth frances, a former nurse, helped bring it all to life. >> i have had the pleasure of working here for almost 16 years. >> reporter: here's how it works. when the bell rings at the end of the school day, students across southern arizona head t j-ted to master real-world skills. >> today we are just going to be talking about pulse. >> reporter: it's like an afterschool program but for healthcare where think can leave with a certification in hand. she is a board member and associate professor at the university of arizona. she says it's all about the exposure. >> most kids now doctor, nurse and pharmacist. and they don't know about the whole group that make up the team. >> reporter: in this building, students trade

so in high school football pittsburg high is looking to make history tonight. >> they're down in southern school history. >> the pirates are facing lincoln out of san diego in the second quarter. pitt is down seven. nothing. jamar searcy bounces to the outside and he has the first down and more. searcy goes untouched for a 47 yard touchdown to get the pirates on the board. and it will be the last time you hear his name. we'll go with 25 seconds left in the second. marley alcantara moves up in the pocket and fires a 23 yard dart to searcy, and he falls at the two yard line. so that sets up the very next play with searcy capping off this drive for a two yard touchdown run. it ties the game at 14 right before halftime. then in the third quarter, pitt in the red zone. alcantara rolls to his right and cuts back left. he throws it to searcy, who makes an incredible one hand grab at the one yard line. searcy would complete the drive with a one yard touchdown, his third td of the night, but lincoln began to wear on the pirates defense as akili smith junior, runs through a defender to get to their

an international manhunt for a dead man walking, then a high school honors graduate viciously murdered. >> i still have to pretend like it didn't happen. >> dead in her bed. killed by a masked intruder. but why? >> if it's random, that would be scary. >> who is the mystery man she'd been meeting with before her death? >> ashley was, like, way too honest to have a double life. >> your daily source for true crime starts right now. let's get right to our top story. he was the discount furniture king who lived large and died that way too. but did jose lantigua die from mad cow disease, or was it something more sinister? everyone in jacksonville, florida knew jose lantigua was face the owner of discount furniture stores. his commercials for the circle k chain even made him a local celebrity. >> america, we have a choice. >> and selling dining room tables and bedroom sets made lantigua very rich. would you say it was a millionaire? >> he told me he was. he said that he had millions. >> lantigua. his wife, daphne simpson, said when she first met her husband, he seemed every bit the knight in

decades old high school tradition because of what officials call safety concerns. >> the wall of fame present wrestlers, but now it's gone. as ktvu jesse gary reports, athletes hope the school will find a new way to recognize them. >> in a small section of the wrestling mini gym at mission san jose high school sits the wall. or at least it did until it went back into the history it was meant to preserve. >> we saw it happening slowly. first they took off our wall of nlcs champion wrestlers and then our old team photos. >> team co-captain sophia asaro and others stunned the school's administration removed the decades old salute to excellence piece by piece. now the wall really is just a wall. >> it felt like our own room was getting taken from us. >> the wall dates back to 1984, when then wrestling coach thompson wanted to honor his greatest wrestlers and teams. so he put their names, pictures and trophies in a place where everyone could see them. after his retirement, school administrators removed everything, and that has sparked outrage. >> wrestlers from the last 40 years will show

he's getting a diploma, a certificate of completion is something a student gets if he finishes high school but doesn't meet all the requirements to graduate. ibrahim and his mother were expecting that certificate so he could attend vocational school. his dream is to work with automobiles. he says. but according to this letter, the diploma meant ibrahim is now no longer eligible for those special education services through the district or county. i was sad because if i don't go to the adult school for them, what am i going to do for my future? college isn't an option, he says. even though school officials wrote that he earned his diploma, there's a problem. he struggles with basic reading. i don't understand the basics of the work. the system failed him. how can an 18 year old read at a second grade level? and how can a high school student who only reads at a second g grade lev have a transcript that's filled with a's and b's? we really failed him. this was one of ibrahim's teachers. she asked to remain anonymous to avoid retaliation. having worked with him, i know that he was reading at se