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Despite conservative groups' protests, Northside School District requires students to wear RFID-enabled IDs for better attendance tracking.

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.

Armed guards are now patrolling schools in Marlboro, NJ.

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

The "Armani" of bulletproof clothing has created a new line specifically for U.S. and Canadian schoolchildren, ages 8 to 14. 

The National Rifle Association called for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings."

The $5 million security budget cut will not be coming from releasing uniformed police officers from their posts in Chicago high schools.

Principal Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, killed in today's shooting at her Connecticut elementary school, recently installed a new security system to ensure student safety.

A shooting has been reported at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.