- In Michigan, officials in the Grand Rapids Public Schools turn down a $1 million grant in implement a school resource officer program. Parents and other community leaders said they weren’t comfortable having police officers inside the schools after national incidents in 2015.
- In New Jersey, educators and law enforcement officials are telling parents to resist the urge to help during a campus crisis. Research suggests that self-deploying to the school is not a helpful thing for a parent can do.
- In Colorado, an investigative report on the fatal shooting of Claire Davis at Arapahoe High School on December 13, 2013, concludes that failures to collaborate and share information contributed to the missed opportunities that might have prevented the incident.
- In Washington, D.C., officials from the U.S. Department of Education say that, statistically speaking, U.S. schools are growing safer every year.