Education: K-12

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As part of a $4.2 million plan to increase school security, elementary schools in LA will be patrolled by 440 new security aides equipped with vests and radios.

The National School Shield Program recommends a model program that will train school personnel to carry firearms. 

Connecticut lawmakers are considering a bill that would provide immunity from civil liability for school security consultants.

Students at the University of Missouri Journalism School, in Columbia, Mo., are now taking courses how to use drones to report stories.

Explosive devices and a dead body have been found in a University of Central Florida dorm room.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee passed U.S. Sen. Mark Warner’s CAMPUS Safety Act, which would consolidate federal campus safety efforts into the National Center for Campus Public Safety.

South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a bill allowing teachers to carry guns in school.

The predominantly female 5,000 school safety agents in New York City have signed on to a class action lawsuit accusing the city of paying them less than special officers who perform similar work at homeless shelters and hospitals, a force that is predominantly male. 

Lawmakers in South Dakota have passed a bill that would allow school districts to arm staff and teachers with guns to make their schools safer.