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The Argyle Independent School District in north Texas has started the 2014-15 school year with newly armed teachers.

Cal State Northridge officials announced new policies requiring fraternities, sororities and other campus groups to submit plans in advance about membership recruitment and initiation activities to prevent hazing. 

The Los Angeles Unified school police will stop giving citations for fighting, petty theft and other minor offenses, moving instead to refer students to counseling or other programs. The step back from punitive law enforcement actions reflects growing research that handling minor offenses with police actions does not necessarily make campuses safer. Those actions do often push struggling students to drop out and get in more serious trouble with law enforcement.

School classrooms in Compton, California will be guarded with AR-15 semiautomatic rifles.

 “Deb” Cheesebro has been named the new police chief at William & Mary College. 

Officials in northwest Alabama are getting ready to announce a one-of-a-kind school security program where volunteers are armed. 

Some Georgia school leaders are turning down a new option of arming teachers, arguing that it doesn't make kids any safer.

 Arizona legislators have approved spending $12 million to place 118 school resource officers (SROs) in 32 districts statewide.  

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.