school safety

The $125 million appropriation includes money for literacy coaches and dyslexia services, as well as campus resource officers, alarm systems, or other safety upgrades.

Today, a conversation with the co-director of the National Center for School Safety about the role new state firearm laws may play in preventing school shootings.

Michigan State University Extension has been awarded a federal grant for a program aimed at equipping Michigan youth with mental health skills and preventing violence.

The new monitoring system keeping Detroiters and others in Wayne County aware of what’s in the air. Also, a new security system at Eastern Michigan University looks to AI to identify gun incidents on campus. And learning to sit quietly in your own skin - with nothing on. What two Michiganders learned taking on a side job posing for life drawing classes.

This year’s first school safety hearing for the Michigan House Education Committee took place Monday night in Sterling Heights.

17-year-old Ethan Crumbley is scheduled to be sentenced next month for the shooting spree that killed four of his classmates and wounded six other students and a teacher.

On Monday, a firm hired by the district in the wake of the deadly 2021 shooting at Oxford High School released a report on the district’s security and safety policies.

The state is sending $25 million to selected school districts to hire 195 school resource officers to assist with safety programs and crisis management.

Recommendations on violence prevention focus on creating threat-assessment teams, providing multi-tiered mental health support, and adding to the curriculum.

The governor says the $19.6 billion budget contains major increases in spending on per-student investment, school infrastructure, teacher recruitment, and school safety.