Armed guards and metal detectors are chief among the new measures being taken to ensure the safety of patients.
- By Jordan Lutke
- August 24, 2018
Football games could be a potential soft target for an active assailant.
- By Sydny Shepard
- August 23, 2018
Schools are mining student's social media posts for signs of trouble.
- By Sydny Shepard
- August 22, 2018
Santa Fe High details boosted security measures following on-campus shooting last May.
- By Sydny Shepard
- August 21, 2018
A 14-year-old boy stabbed a girl of the same age in the middle of an all school assembly.
- By Sydny Shepard
- August 17, 2018
Beginning Wednesday, security officers were stationed at all entrances to help guide visitors to the appropriate areas. Security at the facility is also limiting entrance to the hospital to three locations and the Emergency Department.
AIA outlines four paths of action the Institute intends to take to support architects and school communities
- By Sydny Shepard
- August 16, 2018
A Virginia school district publically posted crisis emergency plans to its website.
- By Sydny Shepard
- August 15, 2018
The Department of Homeland Security is offering school districts funding for student trauma training programs.
- By Sydny Shepard
- August 14, 2018
MSD High School will be patrolled by 18 security officials in the upcoming school year.
- By Sydny Shepard
- August 09, 2018
Weeks after the Parkland shooting, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam pushed the Safe Schools Act, which earmarked the money.
- By Sydny Shepard
- August 08, 2018
A new charter school just miles from Marjory Stoneman Douglas could be the most advanced campus in terms of security in the state.
- By Sydny Shepard
- August 07, 2018
Campus lockdown procedures, much like other emergency response and disaster preparedness measures, are critical to the safe and secure operation of a school campus.
- By Michael Niola
- August 01, 2018
Although some college campuses have long benefited from mass notification systems, the current evolving threat environment facing our education systems indicate just how crucial it is for all schools to have the technologies and communications infrastructure to inform and protect students, families, faculty and staff.
- By Daniel Graff-Radford
- August 01, 2018
Education Week’s log of school shootings reveals at least 13 incidents in 2018 so far, with 97 people killed or injured. How do we stop this unending cycle of violence?
- By Peter Trepp
- August 01, 2018
With gun violence now a reality in school corridors and classrooms, officials are faced with the significant, yet daunting, task of ensuring that students, faculty and staff are secure in what traditionally has been considered a safe environment.
- By Dan Stewart
- August 01, 2018
In sporting events, the score often doesn’t tell the whole story. In the search for active shooter barricades in U.S. K-12 schools, this score tells it all.
- By Dave Geenens
- August 01, 2018
People who studied education most likely have no formal training in the security field, yet now they are expected to make expert decisions about campus security.
- By Mary Wilbur
- August 01, 2018
When searching for a new access control provider, Townsend cited the security of students and protection of facilities as two of the biggest challenges the new system needed to manage.
- By Ellie Randall
- August 01, 2018
As the push for connected campuses advances, many facilities are looking to upgrade their security systems from mechanical to electronic access control.
- By Benjamin Williams
- August 01, 2018