- In Arkansas, officials in the Little Rock School District have made the decision to pull all officers from its elementary schools. In its place is a new mobile security system that allows officers to drive to multiple schools to do security checks, instead of being stationed at each elementary school.
- In Pennsylvania, the Safe Schools Initiative Targeted Grant program has awarded $6.5 million in grants for the training and compensation of school resource officers and school police officers, and to prevent and reduce violent incidents through programs and security equipment.
- In Nebraska, the Omaha Education Association and area teachers lament the new restorative justice discipline policy. Teachers say that it is time the consequences fit the crimes. One teacher has already resigned because of the violence.
- In New Jersey, the United States District Court held that a student was appropriately disciplined for his out-of-school postings on YouTube and Twitter that disparaged, harassed, intimidated and bullied fellow students, and triggered the school’s obligations under the New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act. [Dunkley v. Board of Education of the Greater Egg Harbor].