KENSINGTON, Md. — The Montgomery County Board of Education on Thursday declined to approve the district’s annual National Walk to School Day celebration out of deference to what officials described as recent tragic events in which young people were killed by vehicles.

The move comes less than a week after a 16-year-old was struck and killed by a vehicle a few blocks away from Albert Einstein High School in Kensington.

Police are still investigating the crash that took the life of James Evert Anderson in the area of University Boulevard West and St. Paul Street.

“All of our school communities are heartbroken by the recent tragic incidents in which students have been injured or killed by vehicles in and around schools. We extend our deepest sympathy to the families, friends, classmates, a

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