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There’s relief for Connecticut families after Congress extended a bill to offer free summer meals for children statewide. And school districts will receive a higher reimbursement rate per meal in the upcoming school year.

School shootings seem to be commonplace in America today. This week on Disrupted, the impact of guns on our schools and teachers. Plus, a political scientist at UCONN tells us why fighting gun violence takes all of us.

The School Building Projects Advisory Council will evaluate window design when it takes over responsibility for reviewing and updating the state's school safety criteria in July.

In Newtown, Conn., a new Sandy Hook Elementary opened in 2016, four years after the shooting there. In other places, some have said that leaving buildings in place can offer survivors a way to heal.

In the wake of the Texas school shooting, Monsignor Robert Weiss of St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown talks about faith in the face of tragedy. He presided over the funerals of eight first-graders killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

Law enforcement is still investigating the shooting at Robb Elementary School. But accounts from officials have offered a confusing look at the timeline of Tuesday's shooting.

Across Connecticut, local superintendents are telling families that additional police officers have been dispatched to schools and that counseling is available.

Officials in Texas release more information, while Americans across the nation continue to express shock and grief at the massacre.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with David Wheeler, father to a 6-year-old who was killed in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, about his reaction to the events in Uvalde, Texas.

Nineteen children and two teachers died after an 18-year-old gunman entered a classroom at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.