For the last two years, Texas officials have worked together to come up with ways to improve school safety. Legislators made upgrades to the state’s school safety framework and provided funding to ensure all school safety requirements can be effectively implemented.
- By Sherelle Black
- August 29, 2019
These days YouTube is a way of living for some families. But are families going too far by recording a school campus and its students for a YouTube video?
- By Sherelle Black
- August 29, 2019
Florida lawmakers believe monitoring students' social media will help to prevent mass school shootings and other threats.
- By Sherelle Black
- August 28, 2019
Expelled students typically return to their original schools within 80 days according to Ohio law. How should administrators, parents and students handle the returned students?
- By Haley Samsel
- August 27, 2019
At Clark Atlanta University, staff and students are still on edge after a shooter wounded four students, prompting the university to expand the number of hours its police officers work.
- By Sherelle Black
- August 27, 2019
A Tennessee district uses the program Gaggle to track and identify suicide and violence threats in communications on the school system.
- By Amanda Smiley
- August 26, 2019
Fruitport High School is spending $48 million to add curved hallways, hiding areas and classroom doors that can be locked remotely as part of its efforts to make students and staff safer.
- By Haley Samsel
- August 26, 2019
As students moved on campus this week, university police increased the number of officers on patrol and canceled a week of planned promotional events.
- By Haley Samsel
- August 23, 2019
The center aims to increase the use of an anonymous tipline, review school emergency management plans and host an annual safety summit, among other priorities.
- By Haley Samsel
- August 23, 2019
The bill, a version of which was already signed into law in New Jersey, would require Florida public schools to install silent panic alarms in each building.
- By Haley Samsel
- August 22, 2019