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Making schools safe a difficult assignment
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\'You can\'t simply prevent\' violent attacks, especially from outsiders, official says
WASHINGTON -- As superintendent of schools in Appleton, Wis., Tom Scullen has been struggling for more than a decade to improve safety for the city\'s 15,000 students by posting policemen at school buildings, installing cameras, improving lighting and adopting anti-bullying policies.
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Threat Shuts All Culpeper Schools
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After a recent rash of school shootings in several states, jittery officials are acting with heightened vigilance to protect students. CULPEPER, Va. -- The call came in to the Culpeper County communications center at 11:31 Wednesday night. The caller spoke in vague terms and named no buildings. But his threat, authorities said, was clear: Schools would be bombed.
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A Blueprint for Change: Improving the System Response to Youth with Mental Health Needs Involved with the Juvenile Justice System
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The majority of youth involved with the juvenile justice system have mental health disorders. "Blueprint for Change: A Comprehensive Model for the Identification and Treatment of Youth with Mental Health Needs in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System" (Skowyra & Cocozza, in press) offers a conceptual and practical framework for juvenile justice and mental health systems to use when developing strategies and policies to improve mental health services for youth involved with the juvenile justice system. This Research and Program Brief from the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice summarizes that framework.
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Safety in schools topic of conference
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GRAPEVINE — Religious leaders will be asked to participate in a conference next week on safeguarding the nation's children after the recent rash of school violence, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said Wednesday.
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School shootings spur safety check
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Seattle-area school officials say they are reviewing safety procedures and are on heightened alert in the wake of recent high-profile school shootings in Colorado, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
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Conference being organized to discuss increasing violence at schools
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The Bush administration, alarmed by recent attacks at public schools across the country, is bringing education and law enforcement experts together for a conference on coming to grips with the problem.
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John Baer | Can they dismiss this one? -
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AS LAWMAKERS meet in the Capitol today for Day 3 of an unusual session on violent crime, perhaps yesterday's schoolhouse slaughter in nearby Lancaster County will help make deliberations a little more serious.
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Phila. schools raise level of alertness
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Philadelphia schools were closed for a Jewish holiday yesterday, but district officials paid close attention to reports on the schoolhouse slaughter in Amish country.
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Approval expected for police-at-school program
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Up to $60,000 from MPS would fund patrols
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School strip searches mandated by House
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WASHINGTON – Even though student molestations seem to be reaching epidemic proportions in schools across America, the House of Representatives has approved a tough new anti-drug and anti-weapon law that would require local districts to develop search policies – including strip searches – with immunity against prosecution for teachers and staff.
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Commission approves funding for parent truant officers
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This school year, parents again will canvass Philadelphia streets looking to convince juvenile truants to go back to school. The five-member School Reform Commission yesterday unanimously approved spending $813,217 starting today through June 30, 2007, to fund 100 parent truant officers (PTOs).
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Safe-school obstacles cited -
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Philadelphia School District CEO Paul Vallas and new Safe Schools Advocate Jack Stollsteimer were both beating the same drum yesterday, citing the obstacles to removing violent students from neighborhood school classrooms.
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Teenager shot in face at school
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A 13-year-old girl is shot in the face and the leg with an air gun in the grounds of a Leicestershire school.
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When sex offenders go to school
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Under a new law, school employees will now be informed when juvenile sex offenders are in their classrooms.
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Laptops raise stakes for student safety
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Nearly 300 Philadelphia students are traveling to and from high school this year - many through high-crime neighborhoods and on foot - toting district-issued laptops.
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Be Prepared for Major Flu Outbreak, State Official Tells Schools
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By Rong-Gong Lin II
State Supt. Jack O'Connell unveils a checklist to help schools plan for a possible pandemic. L.A. Unified is already making preparations.
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Schoolkids Sent E. Coli Instead of Bugs
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - Maybe the science teachers at Broken Arrow Elementary School can teach a lesson on life being full of surprises.
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A plea to unshackle kids
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BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER
In what may be the first barrage in a coordinated effort in South Florida, the Miami-Dade Public Defenders' Office called upon juvenile court judges Monday to end the chaining of youthful offenders in court, calling the practice a ''degrading'' affront to the Constitution and damaging to the youths' mental health.
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Juvenile courts' role debated
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Juvenile-court judges in some Ohio counties have tapped millions of dollars in federal money for nearly a decade by sending children who are on probation into foster care, group homes or treatment centers.
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Hub opens school for students in recovery
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Boston finally has a home for the city's first high school for students who are recovering from drug and alcohol abuse.
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Today's lesson: Shoot to kill
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CHULABHORN NAVAL BASE, Thailand -- "When you pull the trigger, you've got to keep steady," the instructor sternly told the elementary school teachers. "If your hand is shaking, you can't shoot."
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CUBE Survey Says Safety is Critical Issue as Urban Students Return to School
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National School Boards Association
Experts Offer Tips to Students, Parents on Maintaining Safe Climate
Alexandria, Va. - The recent uptick in violence involving young people in several cities, including Boston, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C., has raised concerns about the kind of classroom environment that urban school students face as schools open
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CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STUDENT DISCIPLINE: Call for Papers
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NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON STUDENT CONDUCT
2 to 5 APRIL 2007 , Potchefstroom , South Africa
INVITATION TO PRESENT A PAPER AT AN UPCOMING CONFERENCE
The Research Project on student discipline in schools at the Faculty of Education Sciences of the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) takes pleasure in providing academics and Education practitioners an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas on a burning, current national and international issue in education, namely discipline in schools.
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