A newly introduced federal bill seeks to heighten security at American schools by encouraging districts to adopt social media monitoring programs.
- By Sherelle Black
- November 06, 2019
Colorado’s School Safety Committee pushed forward legislation that could better address students’ behavioral health needs. Lawmakers left guns out of the conversation largely for the sake of bipartisanship.
- By Sherelle Black
- November 05, 2019
Police in a Detroit suburb are seeking criminal charges against students suspected of making masked threats against a Catholic high school on social media.
- By Sherelle Black
- November 05, 2019
In response to a classroom shooting in the spring, UNC Charlotte will add security measures that include equipping non-locking classrooms with kits to secure doors, the school’s chancellor said in a statement released Friday.
- By Sherelle Black
- November 04, 2019
A new Florida law is requiring that all school district-ran schools have at least one armed school resource officer and the Broward County School District just agreed to spend $3.4 million to abide by that law.
- By Sherelle Black
- November 04, 2019
Beaumont ISD has partnered with Gaggle to help monitor students' activities online such as signs of bullying, depression and inappropriate behavior.
- By Sherelle Black
- November 01, 2019
Multiple students responsible for spreading “falsified, and in some cases doctored,” social media posts referencing a threat to North Cobb High School this week have been identified and will face criminal charges.
- By Sherelle Black
- November 01, 2019
The research advocates for a restorative justice approach to crisis prevention instead of doubling down on zero tolerance discipline policies.
- By Haley Samsel
- October 31, 2019
A group sued a Jacksonville district for arming school safety assistants, but the district said it was just trying to meet standards set by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act.
- By Haley Samsel
- October 31, 2019
Hackers infected servers used by the San Bernardino City Unified School District with ransomware, making it one of the latest school districts to be targeted.
- By Sherelle Black
- October 30, 2019
A threatening snap sent out over the weekend to high school students has parents uneasy about sending their children to the Virginia high school.
- By Sherelle Black
- October 30, 2019
The app, Covert Alert, uses voice-activated phrases to send the user’s exact location to five contacts and begins a live audio recording of what’s going on around you.
- By Sherelle Black
- October 29, 2019
Duncanville High School enhanced its security measures on Monday after two students were put in police custody for making a threat against the school on Sunday.
- By Sherelle Black
- October 29, 2019
An 8-year-old elementary student is being called a hero after he alerted security at his school that his classmate had shown him a gun in the bathroom.
- By Sherelle Black
- October 28, 2019
Carmel Clay Schools is offering parents of students an opportunity to learn more about school safety procedures through a free safety academy.
- By Sherelle Black
- October 25, 2019
Brown University's newspaper polled over 1,000 students to find out how safe they feel on and off campus after dark.
- By Sherelle Black
- October 25, 2019
The Department of Justice awarded more than $85.3 million in safety grants to bolster school security—including funding to educate and train students and faculty—and support first responders who arrive on the scene of a school shooting or other violent incident.
- By Sherelle Black
- October 24, 2019
An Ohio man left a note in a restaurant that warned of an active shooter and multiple bombs at two high schools. However, it was just a ploy to divert police officers' attention from his plans to rob a bank.
- By Sherelle Black
- October 24, 2019
A 17 year old was shot Tuesday right outside of a high school in Santa Rosa, California.
- By Sherelle Black
- October 23, 2019
Four parents in Florida created a reporting app that allows students, teachers and parents to report fires, fights and other threats.
- By Sherelle Black
- October 23, 2019