- In Red River County, Texas, the Detroit ISD school board has approved a policy that allows the staff to carry concealed handguns on campus. It joins more than 70 Texas school districts that have already armed school personnel.
- The Gallup’s Work and Education poll reports that 29% of U.S. parents say they fear for their child’s safety at school. This is down from the 33% found immediately after the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, but still above the 25% measured a few months before that incident occurred.
- In Illinois, the Governor signed into law Senate Bill 100. Under the law, school officials will no longer be allowed to follow “zero-tolerance” policies. Except for drugs or weapons offenses, students cannot be suspended or expelled until all other “appropriate or available disciplinary interventions have been exhausted.” The law takes effect in September 2016.