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
Emergency communication solutions like blue light phone towers and call boxes have been commonly used tools at universities and colleges for decades.
- By Michael Zuidema
- August 01, 2018
The way we approach school security needs to change. Bullying, mental health challenges, and widespread access to firearms have seeped into the fabric of our educational facilities, triggering a rise in tragic active shooter incidents which have become common enough in newspaper headlines for some to glance over without notice.
- By Richard Brent
- August 01, 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
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
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
For any school system looking to expand or enhance their safety measures, metal detectors offer one line of defense for deterring weapons and other threatening objects from entering school buildings and campus athletic/special event facilities.
- By Luca Cacioli
- August 01, 2018
As we have seen time and time again in critical situations involving our nation’s schools, every second counts in an emergency.
- By Karen Evans
- 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
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
For many years, campuses believed these drills encompassed the entire gamut of threats that could endanger students, faculty and staff on their campus. Today, the threats are evolving and so are the drills.
- By Sydny Shepard
- 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
With back-to-school upon us, we all know how important it is to ensure students are prepped with the essentials.
- By Nicole Hockley
- 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
Every business, campus, facility and organization in a specialty vertical could benefit from some kind of visitor management system, whether on a small or large scale. In reality, these organizations or businesses already have some type of visitor management system in place, but it is often in the inefficient form of a receptionist or paper logbook.
- By Sydny Shepard
- August 01, 2018
The next generation of students is making its way onto college campuses. As millennials trade in their caps and gowns for a spot in the workforce, Gen Z is shopping for dorm room essentials.
- By Jeff Meier
- August 01, 2018
Locked, biometric gun safes will be placed in all eight of the corporation’s school buildings this year. The safes are protected by alarms, monitored by cameras, anchored in concrete, and accessed via fingerprint.
- By Jessica Davis
- July 31, 2018
The doors will be installed as part of a pilot program at two elementary schools and one high school.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 30, 2018
Parents are finding themselves purchasing bulletproof items for their children to take to school with them.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 27, 2018
The licensing fee will allow the county's schools, both public and private, to have free access to the Rave Panic Button app.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 26, 2018
PDK Poll found that parents are more scared to send their students to school than they were 20 years ago in their annual survey.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 24, 2018
RealNetworks is inviting K-12 schools in the United States and Canada to download their facial recognition technology for free.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 20, 2018
The Crimson Tide will be introducing metal detecors to football games starting in the fall.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 18, 2018
Spotsylvania has approved a motion to seek funding for additional security on campus.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 17, 2018