ACLU: Schools need more mental health professionals, fewer police
Public schools need more mental health professionals and fewer police, according to a recently released report by the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Onalaska High School 3-D printer security monitored
A federal judge is stopping a Texas company from distributing plans for guns that can be created using a 3-D printer.
School security is a rapidly growing business
Schools across the country are reassessing security measures in response to a wave of school shootings.
West Salem Schools renovation allows focus on security
When the kids are away, the construction workers stay.
After march, school 'feels like jail' to Parkland students
Students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School return to class Monday, their first day back since organizing one of the largest youth-led protests in US history.
The race to fund the government is on (again)
After months of disagreements over spending, five short-term budget deals and fights about health care, immigration, a New York infrastructure project and gun control, Congress is set to unveil and pass a massive spending bill in upcoming days that may finally address some of Capitol Hill's most contentious issues.
White House defends its walkback on gun law proposals
The White House on Monday defended its piecemeal approach to combating gun violence and insisted President Donald Trump hasn't entirely abandoned the idea of raising the minimum age for purchasing guns, hours after the President said there was "not much political support" for the initiative.
DeVos struggles to answer basic questions about schools in her home state
Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos stumbled her way through a tense interview on CBS's "60 Minutes" Sunday night, struggling to answer some basic questions about schools in her home state of Michigan and admitting that she does not "intentionally" visit underperforming schools.
White House unveils gun and school safety proposals
The Trump administration on Sunday night proposed providing some school personnel with "rigorous" firearms training and backed a bill to improve criminal background checks on gun buyers, but backpedaled on the idea of increasing the minimum age to buy certain firearms -- a policy President Donald Trump had said he would support.
House to vote on school security bill next week as Senate is stuck on guns
Momentum on overhauling the country's gun laws has practically stalled at the US Capitol, but the House will vote next week on a narrow proposal that will give schools more money to strengthen security.
