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Professor Amy Klinger from the non-profit Educator’s School Safety Network discussed the recent elementary school mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.   

Gary Sigrist, who coaches schools nationwide on emergency preparedness, says there are warning signs people need to watch out for. COLUMBUS, Ohio — After the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas that left at least 21 people dead Tuesday, the question many people are asking is, “When will school shootings stop, and what else can…

A preliminary investigation into the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting that killed 21 people focused largely on a faulty law enforcement response to the May 24 attack, but also found problems with school security procedures that may be very familiar to educators around the country. Among those issues: Teachers frequently struggled to lock doors in the…

A scathing report released Sunday by a Texas House committee investigating the Uvalde school shooting blamed multiple failures by those in positions of power – including nearly 400 law enforcers who converged on the scene – for not halting the massacre. The preliminary report describes “systemic failures and egregious poor decision making”: how police disregarded…

Hayden, 12, had been having panic attacks about school even before a letter arrived at his home last month, threatening legal action for his alleged absences from distance learning.  The sixth-grader has been attending online class from his home outside Austin, Texas, since August, and having difficulties adjusting. When his grades dropped, he started having…

Nearly 180,000 children in the United States were diagnosed with coronavirus infections from November 26 to December 10, bringing the cumulative total to over 1.6 million US cases since the pandemic began, the American Academy of Pediatrics said Tuesday.Children account for a little more than 12% of all Covid-19 cases in the states that report…

According to data compiled by Education Week, most states are dealing with a wide array of approaches to kicking off the new school year. Click a state below to learn more about the state of K-12 schools reopening across the US. Read more: CNN

Schools have made many changes to cope with coronavirus – from social distancing to altering the school day. Many are also closing early for Christmas, to help reduce the number of infections. Read more: BBC