Articles Tagged with ''school safety''

The Horry County, SC school board approved 18 armed security officers who will patrol the 15 schools that Horry County police previously patrolled as well as three new schools scheduled to be open by next year.

LAUSD police officers are employing a 21st century policing strategy, with a focus on community oriented enforcement, to improving police-community relations, keep kids in school and to improve the safety of the schools within the district and the surrounding neighborhoods. Learn more about this program and how you could apply it in your own district in a free webinar 3/28. 

A study that tracked hundreds of children from kindergarten through high school found that chronic or increasing levels of bullying were related to lower academic achievement.

A new law that took effect in Missouri on Jan. 1 delivers swift punishments for fighting and bullying in schools.

According to the Educator’s School Safety Network (ESSN), a national non-profit school safety organization, the vast majority of media reports related to school safety this school year have been about bomb threats.

U.S. parents’ concern for their children’s physical safety at school has held steady this year at 28 percent, according to an August Gallup poll.

A growing number of children have expressed fears about safety at their schools, particularly in public schools.

Zero-tolerance policies are ineffective in combating bullying, which is a “serious public health problem."

Crime in the nation’s schools and college campuses has declined over the past two decades, according to a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
 

Schools may have more success curbing incidents of bullying if their most social students take an anti-bullying stance.