LAPD officers will "adopt" a school and visit for 30 minutes everyday, the new policy states, talking with teachers, parents and staff, in an effort to stave off violence after the Dec. 14, 2012, shootings in Newtown, Conn.
There are five basic tenets that can mitigate risk in K-12 schools across the U.S., says David Esquith, Director, Office of Safe and Healthy Students for the U.S. Department of Education
Principal Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, killed in today's shooting at her Connecticut elementary school, recently installed a new security system to ensure student safety.
In today’s era of budget cuts, education leaders are looking for ways to leverage existing resources to meet institution-wide goals, as opposed to buying new, expensive tools that may or may not work as intended.