Students of a Texas school district must drug tests before they are allowed to take part in certain extracurricular activities.

An advisory panel is recommending that the Little Rock, Ark. School District not arm its security officers.

Public, private and independent schools in Vermont can apply for grants up to $25,000 to increase on-campus security.

Online bullying is becoming more prevalent among middle and high school students, “even as overall rates of bullying in schools have remained steady,” says a new federal report.

Representative Ted Deutch (FL-22) and Representative Roger Williams (TX-25) introduced the School Violence Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2019, a bill that establishes federal grant programs for public schools to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities.

The board of the Los Angeles Unified School District has voted to end wand searches on students.

Suffolk County, New York has launched a school safety initiative called the Sharing to Help Access Remote Entry (SHARE) that will share live security camera footage with police in active shooter situations. 

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced a plan to decrease police presence in the city’s schools by limiting the situations in which law enforcement will be allowed to respond to matters that arise on school grounds.