New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced approval of 148 Smart Schools Investment Plans aimed at improving school security and reimagining teaching and learning for the 21st century.

Parkland parent Andrew Pollack is launching School Safety Grant, a new organization that awards security technology solutions in school districts across America with the objective of saving response time and lives in an emergency.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice, Office of School Safety, has launched the “Speak Up, Speak Out Resource Center.”

U.S. Reps. Ed Perlmutter (CO) and Stephanie Murphy (FL) announced the approval, by the powerful House Appropriations Committee, of $1 million for independent experts to publish a study on the potential mental health effects of active shooter drills in elementary and secondary schools.

Very few of 2,000 school children and teachers tested in the German state of Saxony showed antibodies to COVID-19, a study has found, suggesting schools may not play as big a role in spreading the virus as some had feared.

Neva Coakley-Grace, a former Boston police officer, has been named chief of the Boston Public Schools Safety Services Department.

Los Angeles School Police Department Deputy Chief Leslie Ramirez has been named interim chief of the department, following Chief Todd Chamberlain’s resignation.