“One of the key components to ensuring comprehensive school safety is an effective school resource officer,” says Atif Qarni, Secretary of Education. “This funding will greatly help schools partner with officers to promote safety of our students and schools.”
One in five school police officers say their school is not prepared to handle an active-shooter situation, according to a survey of school resource officers conducted by the Education Week Research Center.
The governor of Indiana announced more than $10 million in school security funds to be distributed to hundreds of schools and school corporations for threat assessments, installation of security systems or the hiring of school resource officers.
Changes to New York city's student safety act includes reporting of when kids are handcuffed in schools and when school safety agents are injured in scuffles with kids.
A school district has sued the city of Taft, California, claiming a school shooting two years ago would not have happened if a police officer was on duty.
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With the nearest police presence eight miles away, the Wantage Township's school board has unanimously voted to hire two retired state troopers to guard the rural high school.
