Student-on-Employee Workers’ Compensation Assault Claims Drop: Gallagher Bassett August 9, 2024 By Allen Laman The number of workers’ compensation claims for student-on-school-employee assault dropped significantly during the 2023-24 school year, according to data from...
Maine Schools Face Unique Challenges in Ridding Water of ‘Forever Chemicals’ July 29, 2024 By EMMETT GARTNER/The Maine Monitor Days before winter break ended in December 2022, Bill Hansen was relieved to learn that Jordan-Small Middle School in Raymond...
Maine Lawmakers Propose Arming Security Guards or Teachers in Schools February 7, 2023 AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican lawmakers said it’s time to beef up security in Maine schools, either with armed security...
Virginia Teacher’s Lawyer: Administrators Were Warned 3 Times Boy Had Gun January 27, 2023 By Denise Lavoie NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Concerned staff warned administrators at a Virginia elementary school three times that a 6-year-old boy...
Parents, Teachers Angry Over School Safety in City Where 6-Year-Old Shot Teacher January 20, 2023 By Ben Finley and Denise Lavoie NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — When a 6-year-old shot and wounded his first-grade teacher in this shipbuilding city near Virginia’s...
Revisiting School Safety After Shooting of Virginia Teacher by 6-Year-Old January 13, 2023 By Ben Finley and Denise Lavoie NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The shooting of a first-grade teacher by a 6-year-old boy has plunged the nation into...
School Resource Officers Remain Popular in Maryland as Safety Tops Concerns November 2, 2022 By Emily R. Condon, Capital News Service and Colin McNamara, Capital News Service Amid nationwide concern about school shootings and other violent incidents, all 24 Maryland school districts have employed school resource officers...
How Schools Are Trying to Deal with Threats to Safety Despite Obstacles August 9, 2019 By Carolyn Thompson and Martha Waggoner There were so many questions after 17-year-old Ely Serna brought a shotgun to his Ohio school and opened fire in...
Texas Legislation Would Allow More Armed School Personnel May 8, 2019 By Jim Vertuno Nearly a year after a mass shooting at a Texas high school in which eight students and two substitute teachers...
Texas Senate Passes School Safety Bill April 30, 2019 The Texas Senate has approved a bill intended to increase security and prevent on-campus incidents of violence at public schools....