School Security

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) reportedly denied Catholic schools’ request for a small security budget, despite having a $17 billion surplus and giving similar grants to public schools.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” host and Townhall.com Political Editor Guy Benson stated that if one wanted to use the same “horrible” logic that gun control proponents use to attack their opponents as complicit in

The Texas Legislative Budget Board announced the authorization of nearly $875 million for public safety initiatives including school security and additional funding for Operation Lone Star. Also included is $100 million for COVID-19 response expenses.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) argued that some of the money allocated to the IRS by the Inflation Reduction Act should be spent on school safety and security and touted

President Joe Biden delivered a 20-minute prime-time address about gun violence on Thursday in without mentioning school security. 

The White House reacted to proposals from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for a legislative response to the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” House Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member Rep. James Comer (R-KY) said that school security measures that Kentucky adopted to prevent school shootings have worked and that investing in these

The majority of voters believe gun violence will increase during President Joe Biden’s tenure, a Politico/Morning Consult poll found Thursday.

On Wednesday Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) used a tweet to say that school security, “at a minimum,” should include “certified, armed teachers.”

Evil has discovered a fast and easy way to become famous: shoot up a school. Better yet, shoot up an elementary school. We’ve known this going all the way back to Columbine. Worse still, we’ve known the pattern since Columbine…

Weeks before children return to classrooms, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) schooled Central Texas campus resource officers, administrators, and mental health counselors on the subjects of campus safety and security.

The Santa Fe Independent School District will spend more than $1 million on security at their lone high school, the site of the May 18 mass shooting that killed eight students, two teachers, and wounded 13 others.

Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick announced plans to donate up to 10 metal detectors to the Santa Fe, Texas, school district following the May 18 shooting that killed students and teachers and left others wounded.

A North Texas school district approved a safety measure that will allow teachers to carry a concealed handgun in their classrooms.

Texas schools continue to adopt stricter safety measures they hope will better harden campuses and prevent future active shooter situations in light of the recent deadly, mass shootings in Parkland, Florida, and closer to home at Santa Fe High.

Where once a parent could walk unquestioned into an elementary school to share lunch with their son or daughter; now they must be buzzed in, badged, possibly directed through a metal detector, and permitted to go only to a specific place within the building.

An outpouring of Southeast Texas school districts announced plans this week to bolster security measures through the end of the academic year in response to Friday’s horrific high school shooting in the nearby Santa Fe Independent School District.

The Dallas Independent School District held active shooter awareness training for several thousand students on Monday. This event intended to impart ways to better spot potential threats of campus violence and how to respond should it happen.

Schools across Sweden have increased security, including hiring security guards, after a rise in violence towards teachers.

Just months after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a bill barring K-12 teachers from being armed for self-defense, Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-9) is pushing a tax on firearms to pay for school security.

A North Texas school district announced plans to pour $36 million into high-tech surveillance and overhaul existing security systems to thwart potential active shooters and other campus threats.

Random backpack searches, canine patrols, new security gates, additional police, student ID badges, and the use of clear book bags mark some of the many changes one Texas school district intends to roll out as part of a larger five year campus security plan.

North Carolina’s Henderson County is hiring armed security for each of its public schools as a way of preventing an attack like the one at Florida’s Parkland high school.

The NRA is pushing for enhanced school safety measures by pointing out that Congress must take protecting our kids as seriously as they take protecting themselves. 

Andrew Pollack, one of too many grieving parents in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, shooting massacre, is the only person who has so far hit the nail squarely on the head about the media’s depraved indifference towards schools security.

A teacher at a South Jersey high school was suspended last week after he condemned the school’s lack of security in the wake of recent school shootings.

Colorado’s Douglas County School District is acquiring ten semi-automatic rifles for its security team to use in the event of an emergency.

During his March 3 speech at CPAC, NRA executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre reminded audience members of how the media mocked his call for good guys with guns in schools following the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary, yet parents embraced the suggestion.