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The 2012 Indicators of School Crime and Safety report also notes that 77 percent of students (age 12-18) reported having security cameras in their schools.

A cyberattack on a University of Delaware computer system exposed more than 72,000 people to identity theft and could cost the school millions of dollars.

Under proposed legislation, schools would have to report when and how their emergency safety drills are conducted.

One Arkansas school district is training 20 district employees and allowing them to carry concealed weapons on campus.

The closing of 50 schools this August in Chicago has prompted comparisons to the violent death of Derrion Albert, with warnings that the new school boundary lines could bring similar tension. 

Administrators in the Plano Independent School District have decided on panic buttons to keep students safe in schools.

The Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program is now an encouraged course for first-graders in the state of Missouri. 

New surveillance cameras in West Aurora, Ill., schools will enable first responders to get a more solid picture of an incident before arriving at the scene. 

This coming school year every middle school and high school in Atlanta, will have an Atlanta Police Department officer patrolling its campus.

School districts in Illinois will now be required to conduct safety drills to prepare for a possible shooting under legislation Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law.