How Parents Can Handle Threats to School Safety
Some of the questions parents have about school safety may include how school lockdowns or drills are implemented, what other plans are in place to help kids stay safe, and how to talk to...
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Newtown panel draft report targets guns, school safety, mental health treatment
The draft report of the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission contains 30 firearms and law enforcement recommendations, as well as a critique of inadequate behavioral health programs and insurance reimbursements that it says contribute to...
School Safety For America’s Youngest Students Means More Officers, More Guns
The same week protests erupted around the nation over the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, 800 school police officers attended a training conference on school violence in...
Countering school shootings: What tactics work best?
ALICE School Staff Training note: The Alice Training Institute (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate) offers training based on a set of proactive strategies aimed at increasing chances of survival during an armed intruder event....
School Security Around The Nation: Washington, MO
School Safety Director Is Hired to Shepherd ‘Cutting Edge’ Program A Union police officer has been selected as the school safety director to lead a new “cutting edge” countywide program that is said to...
School Security Around The Nation: Rochester, NY
Program can help increase safety at schools What if a computer program could make your child’s school safer than it is now? Most parents would push their child’s school district to get it. We’ve...
95 School Shootings Since Newtown
Unfortunately, schools shootings are actually increasing in frequency as the article linked below details. In total, this means one school shooting nearly every week over the last two years. Everytown for Gun Safety and...