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
Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz's death penalty trial will begin in January 2020, according to a court order.
- By Sherelle Black
- October 22, 2019