Articles Tagged with ''school security''

The Argyle Independent School District in north Texas has started the 2014-15 school year with newly armed teachers.

The indicator uses simple, bold, color-coded “secured” (red) and “unsecured” (green) visual indication to ensure the door has been locked correctly and quickly.

The Los Angeles Unified school police will stop giving citations for fighting, petty theft and other minor offenses, moving instead to refer students to counseling or other programs. The step back from punitive law enforcement actions reflects growing research that handling minor offenses with police actions does not necessarily make campuses safer. Those actions do often push struggling students to drop out and get in more serious trouble with law enforcement.

School classrooms in Compton, California will be guarded with AR-15 semiautomatic rifles.

Officials in northwest Alabama are getting ready to announce a one-of-a-kind school security program where volunteers are armed. 

Some Georgia school leaders are turning down a new option of arming teachers, arguing that it doesn't make kids any safer.

 Arizona legislators have approved spending $12 million to place 118 school resource officers (SROs) in 32 districts statewide.  

While large-scale and dramatic acts of school violence have drawn a public focus to safety concerns in U.S. schools, violent deaths at school remain statistically rare, says a government report.