The role of school counselors needs to be clearly stated in legislation so they can use their unique skills to help students, teachers, and families.

The Mississippi Board of Education voted to remove a policy that barred individuals with enhanced concealed carry permits from carrying guns in elementary and secondary public schools, revising a 1990 policy that previously prohibited anyone other than "duly authorized law enforcement officials" from doing so.

As lawmakers in Texas pore over details of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, school safety leaders in Florida are preparing to discuss how school safety is doing in the Sunshine State.

New rules in the Alachua County school district come after a rise in youth violence this past year, school officials said, which includes the shooting in Uvalde, Texas.