- A Connecticut school district is weighing whether to have drug dogs sniff individual students. Most districts only permit canine searches of objects, a policy that the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education endorses.
- Massachusetts educators adopted—and then quickly abandoned—voluntary student drug tests. Under the policy, when students were suspected of using drugs, they could choose to accept an oral swab test.
- After an Ohio teenager wrote online that he would become “the next high school shooter,” he was charged with telecommunications harassment.
- A small, poverty-filled school district is changing its students by adding behavioral mentorship to its school safety disciplinary measures.