DENVER, Colo. – Experts across the country are working to make schools safer, especially when it comes to mass shootings. One aspect they’re focusing on is mental health. In the past 10 years, there ...

Louis Mercer is a school law enforcement researcher based at the University of Illinois Chicago. But in 2007, he was a teacher in a public school in Arizona when one of his eighth graders was arrested ...

As students at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., returned to school last week, debate continued over how to make the nation’s schools safer in the aftermath of second-deadliest mass ...

Will arming teachers make schools safer? This commentary says no. Meghan Phadke, Brian D. Schultz, and Amity Noltemeyer review evidence and find no empirical support that guns carried by teachers ...

For the past three decades, efforts to make schools more impervious to incidents of violence have pushed new technological tools to the forefront. At Nash County Public Schools, officials there have ...

As the leader in our state’s school safety efforts, the Office of School Safety, a team within the Colorado Department of Public Safety, seeks to share our efforts and our role in partnering with ...