In the 1980s, police officers were “almost nonexistent” in the Klein Independent School District north of Houston, according to David Kimberly, chief of the district's police department.
For Black students and other students of color, their personal experiences with policing can leave them feeling unsafe and alienated from school when they see officers on campus.
The bulk of the money will likely fund police positions in elementary schools a pre-pandemic investigation found that Virginia schools referred more Black students to law enforcement than any other state.
How a teen with an assault-style rifle walked into an unlocked Texas elementary school and stayed nearly an hour has emerged as a key question about the police response to the deadliest US school shooting in almost a decade.
Students are using the speed and seeming anonymity of the internet to post threats of violence against their schools and classmates, resulting in panic, lockdowns and closed building.
State and local law enforcement officials in North Carolina are investigating after threatening calls about suspicious packages were made at 16 different high schools over a period of two days.
Chicopee Superintendent Lynn Clark has been arrested by the FBI after an investigation into threatening messages she allegedly sent to someone applying to be the town's police chief
Bad weather used to be the main reason schools closed until COVID, and until social media—the latter of which is now closing classrooms far more regularly than is the pandemic.
