Connetquot School District

[9][10] In January 2024, the Government of New York State mandated that all new school buses purchased by the district, from 2027 onward, be electric.

[11] The district was one of the beneficiaries of a government program that guarantees free school lunch for students, in February 2024.

The plans, discovered in a notebook left in a Bohemia parking lot, reportedly included a hit list of students and staff and how to ignite explosives.

[13] One of the teenagers involved in the plot, Christopher Franko, was arrested again in June 2010 for planning a similar attack.

The plan failed when Franko and another conspirator were denied the purchase of a shotgun, and turned over to Suffolk County Police.

Police also found a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook, a book with bomb-making instructions, in one of the conspirators' homes.

The district was ordered to remove all names, imagery and mascots relating to the thunderbird from its schools by June 2025.