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According to an updated policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics, school-based “suspicionless” drug testing does little to help identify kids who use drugs and get them into treatment programs.

Elementary school teacher Linda McLean is suing her former school after an active shooter drill.  

New Jersey Assemblymen Sean T. Kean is sponsoring "Secure Schools for All Children Act", a bill that provides $25.00 per pupil to help ensure security measures for nonpublic school children.

Iowa State University researchers are developing the nation’s first computer security literacy curriculum designed for middle school and high school students. 

The House of Representatives in Tennessee has added and approved an amendment that would ban bringing fake guns within 150 feet of schools.

The Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) members have been developing a school security assessment tool and a set of school security guidelines to be revealed at ISC West this month. The living document will provide specific recommendations (especially regarding the use of electronic security equipment) divided into “layers” (parking lots, main entrances, classrooms, etc.) and then again into tiers (depending on the level of resources a given school has available).

THIRTY-FOUR PERCENT of students say they are aware of an individual who poses a risk to their school, according to Awareity’s 2014 Student Safety Report.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is financing the creation of a system for the “automatic detection” of cyberbullying. 

The Florida House of Representatives K-12 Education Subcommittee approved a bill that will allow teachers to be armed, possibly becoming the tenth state to formally enact such a law.