school security

The nation’s two largest teachers unions want schools to revise or eliminate active shooter drills, asserting Tuesday that they can harm students’ mental health and that there are better ways to prepare for the possibility of a school shooting.

Apple iPads and Google Chromebooks are quickly replacing textbooks in classrooms, but with technology-based learning comes concern of how school districts are securing these devices. Gabrielle Campbell of Griffith, Indiana, said she learned that the hard way. Campbell has two daughters – a kindergartener and first grader – who were enrolled in Griffith Public Schools. Both had district-issued take home…

Apple iPads and Google Chromebooks are quickly replacing textbooks in classrooms, but with technology-based learning comes concern of how school districts are securing these devices. Katie Kim reports.