The Tennessee 113th General Assembly passed a few new laws that will make changes to safety policies as students return to classes for the 2023-2024 school year.

Nearly $3 million dollars in grant funds were recently awarded by the Healey administration for 42 Massachusetts school districts to facilitate physical security enhancements and help ensure the safety of students and educators.

In a significant move towards prioritizing school safety, House Bill 147 mandates that schools annually submit safety plans to the state and conduct active shooter drills by October 1 each year.

In response to a tragic school shooting in St. Louis last year, the state of Missouri has taken a proactive step by offering a complimentary emergency alert app to school districts across the region.

State education officials say it will cost an estimated $34 million to place a police officer in each school in West Virginia.

Evers administration officials are urging lawmakers to help fund the Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Office of School Safety, or OSS.

A school safety bill awaiting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s signature falls far short of paying for the measures it would require schools to implement, officials at several Waco-area districts said.

Texas lawmakers’ response to the state’s deadliest school shooting is a sweeping piece of legislation that mandates armed personnel on every campus.

Schools could soon get a safety infrastructure funding boost after the Senate on Sunday passed a bill that would provide districts $15,000 per campus for security upgrades and tighten auditing requirements.

A bill to improve heart safety for student-athletes across the Hoosier state was ceremonially signed by Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb on Monday.

In 2021, more than 800 Californians under age 25 died of fentanyl poisoning – an 18-fold increase from five years ago. Fentanyl accounted for 1 in 5 deaths of California young people ages 15-24 in 2021.

Governor Mike Parson announced that 169 schools across the state have been awarded grants from the School Safety Grant Program. Fourty-two of them are in the Ozarks.

The Texas House on Tuesday gave final approval to legislation that is calling for significant investments to beef up schools’ safety, including hiring at least one armed security officer at every campus, providing incentives for school employees to get certified to carry a weapon and installing silent panic alert buttons in every classroom.

Every community, superintendent and principal aims to keep students and teachers safe in school, but are then faced with the issue of paying for the equipment, personnel and technology to do so.