Schools on Guard After Recent Shootings
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CHICAGO, Oct. 4 -- After a spate of bloody schoolhouse attacks in the past month, school districts around the country are reviewing their emergency plans. Some are looking for ways to tighten security even as they acknowledge the limits on their ability to stop a determined killer.
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Five Pennsylvania high school students were arrested after threats of violence shut down their school district for most of the week, police said.
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Columbine High School, the site of the nation's deadliest school shooting eight years ago, was evacuated Thursday after a bomb threat was called in, authorities said. Jefferson County Sheriff's spokeswoman Jacki Kelley said students were taken to a nearby park while bomb squads and dogs searched the school.
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Hoping to prevent the loss of a child, a few schools have begun monitoring students' arrivals and departures using technology similar to that used to track livestock.
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A gunman shot someone outside a high school cafeteria Wednesday, and the school was locked down, a school district official said.
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Media & professional: Two-thirds of teachers in the UK have been physically or verbally assaulted in the past year, with 17% threatened in incidents involving weapons, according to new research.
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NICKEL MINES, Penn.  - Two girls died overnight after a school shooting in Pennsylvania, bringing to five the number of students killed when a gunman burst into their one-room schoolhouse, state police said on Tuesday.
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School systems in Prince George&#39;s, Charles and St. Mary&#39;s counties have been placed on a watch list that puts them at risk for sanctions -- including eventual state intervention -- if student
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By The Seattle Times  Sep. 14--MERCER ISLAND -- A Mercer Island elementary school was put under  lockdown Wednesday afternoon as police responded to a report of a suicide  threat.   Officers later determined that a man, believed to be in his 60s, had shot  himself in a nearby home.
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Fairfax County health officials warned principals at all county public schools yesterday to be on the lookout for students or staff with symptoms of whooping cough after several students were
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A woman was shot in the head at a Toronto-area high school on Friday and police locked down the school with its students and teachers inside as they searched for the gunman.
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At the Samuel H. Daroff Elementary school in West Philadelphia, students must pass a security officer who uses a metal detector wand to search for possible weapons. A network of cameras pans the grounds and beyond for any sign of trouble.
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Two females and one male student wounded after leaving D.C. high school, police say.
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Video image of hostages sitting below explosives strung from basketball hoops in the gymnasium of a school in Beslan, Russia. Photograph: NTV/AP.
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Surge in school gun ranges after minister Richard Caborn backed shooting for students
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MONTREAL (CP) - Jewish students returning to the United Talmed Torahs school on Monday were met with new security measures put in place since its library was firebombed last April.
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Schools are struggling to cope with increasing numbers of pupils with mental health problems, research suggests.