Gun Violence and Schools

At Fort Wayne’s first youth-led violence summit, high school students described shootings that have shaped their lives, and they challenged community leaders to do more.

Summer break brings a higher risk of violence for Philly’s children. What can be done to stem the shootings?

When state lawmakers passed the Claire Davis School Safety Act in 2015, they may not have foreseen how it would interact with workers’ compensation.

The Project Unloaded program paid teens $150 to learn statistics on gun ownership and helped them create social media videos to share the information with their peers.

U.S. District Court Judge Gordon P. Gallagher ruled that a lawsuit filed by former East High School dean Eric Sinclair can move forward. Sinclair was shot and injured in 2023 by a student with a history of gun possession.

Philly teens say creating space for sharing feelings is key to preventing violence.

Cuts to the Education Department’s data collection offices mean there’s even less information about important school safety questions.

One bill revives part of a proposal vetoed last year. The other is in response to the Evergreen High School shooting.

Many Philadelphia students are exposed to constant violence. Some schools are responding with extra care.

Democratic backers of the proposal, which the Senate needs to approve on a final reading, say it would help ease the process for educators seeking extreme-risk protection orders.

The family of Luis Garcia, a 16-year-old student who was shot and killed outside East, agreed to drop its appeal of a wrongful death lawsuit against Denver Public Schools, court documents show.

The new safety center uses artificial intelligence and live camera footage to monitor MSCS campuses all day, every day. It’s a security upgrade years in the making.

As ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ spreads fear, some school safety workers — and students — are staying home.

The Safe Path program puts trained adults on and off school campuses to defuse fights and keep students safe in local neighborhoods.

Teachers who survived school shootings are banding together to form a crisis intervention team

Educators were added to the list of people who can request someone’s guns be temporarily confiscated. But very few have so far.

Memphis gym and health teachers will instruct students on gun safety curriculum this fall. Though some parents at a town hall this week asked to remove their kids from the training, a district official said that is not an option.

Ten Jeffco schools were closed Thursday, including Evergreen High School.

The shooting left two students injured and the suspected shooter dead.