Student safety

Boston Public Schools reports its first monkeypox case

In a statement to parents, the district reports its first case of monkeypox affecting an "adult member" of the not yet identified school.

Security stimulus: Schools are getting $1 billion for student health and safety

Education leaders urged to use $1 billion in school safety funding for PD, emergency, and mental health support rather than infrastructure.

Utah bus driver caught on video threatening to shoot students

A Utah bus driver was filmed saying she would shoot someone if complaints about her driving continued.

Florida SROs are receiving collapsible long guns and uniform upgrades to deter shooters

"I firmly believe that if you do not meet violence with violence, you will be violently killed," said Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey.

Bullies do this more often than fighting or teasing. This is how leaders can help stop it

The most common form of bullying, social exclusion, is a form of “relational aggression” in which students are left out of group activities.

How a K-12-centered design firm is quite literally building safer schools

As schools are considering implementing physical security measures, one design firm is creating school safety from the ground up.

9 ways school leaders can encourage students to report violent threats

Building student and staff confidence that threat reporting will lead to action remains critical to K-12 leaders' efforts to prevent school violence.

Hazing cancels football season at one high school and is disrupting play elsewhere

Repeated hazing incidents captured on video have tanked the football season at Middletown Area High School in central Pennsylvania.

Gunfire on pre-K-12 campuses nearly quadrupled last school year

A new report reveals that the number of gunfire incidents on pre-K-12 campuses nearly quadrupled during the 2021-2022 school year.

Want students to report threats of violence? Let them remain anonymous

Research indicates that students are more inclined to report threats of violence through anonymous reporting systems.

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