- In New York, data provided by the NYPD data contradict Mayor de Blasio’s repeated assertions that city schools are safe. Over 1,750 weapons have been recovered in the past 10 months — up 26 percent over last year.
- In Kentucky, the Kentucky Center for School Safety is releasing a Report that 90% percent of school administrators surveyed said their school boards had passed bullying prevention policies, but nearly half said they were not given copies of the policy nor received any training on how to implement them.
- In California, the San Francisco Unified School District has successfully settled a lawsuit for $11.5 million to settle a lawsuit it brought against a school bus company that used unsafe buses to transport San Francisco students.
- In Tennessee, the Shelby County Schools will withhold nearly a million dollars in performance pay from its school bus contractor for failing to meet transportation safety benchmarks.
- In Indiana, the Indiana Department of Education certified a new class of school safety specialists, bringing the total number of these officials to about 2,500. The number of these specialists deployed at schools throughout Indiana has more than doubled since 2010.