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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New Site Compares Every K-12 School and District in the U.S.
Features include rankings, student outcomes, and 27 million reviews and opinions Niche, a research site that blends millions of community reviews and opinions with hard data, today revealed its updated K-12 site which compares over...
School Security Around the Nation: Binghamton, NY
Taking a proactive approach to school safety, security With the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary still fresh in mind, experts say the need to put emphasis on school safety is stronger than ever....
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...
Five No-Cost and Low-Cost School Safety Approaches
We are truly blessed with an array of highly robust and effective school security technologies. Today’s security cameras, visitor management systems and other technologies are far superior to what was available just a decade...
School Security Around The Nation: Billings, MT
ID cards, security system to tighten protection at SD2 high schools Soon all Billings high school students and staff will be expected to carry identification on campus as part of a district effort to...