- A new national study released by Brown University reveals that large numbers of students are still being seriously hurt while on school grounds. Each year more than 90,000 school children suffer “intentional” injuries severe enough to land them in the emergency room.
- Educators in western New York State share their views on collaborative school safety: “the school resource officer position … provide an important role in having our students realize and make a connection between law enforcement and life outside of school. They play many different roles in our middle/high school building, including a huge part of the educational piece.”
- The Cumberland County, Tennessee Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday to move forward with a School Resource Officer program in its schools, in cooperation with the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department.
- The United States District Court in Tennessee has ruled that school officials may not regulate off-campus online speech by students when the student’s speech has no connection to the school whatever other than the fact that both the speaker and the targeted victim of the speech studied there. Nixon v. Hardin County Bd. of Education.