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What Do the Data Reveal About Violence in Schools?
Department of Justice, 2020
This report reviews the trends in school violence from the most often cited sources of school safety data and discusses how it can be explored further through additional studies on school shootings and a federal effort to improve federal data and its implications for school safety.
Low Cost/No Cost Immediately Implementable School Safety Tactics
December 2019
This resource includes a list of low cost or no cost tactics that schools can consider as part of their safety efforts.
K-12 School Security Guide Product Suite
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, 2022
The suite is a set of products designed to inform safety and physical security planning for K-12 schools. It includes the K-12 School Security Guide (3rd ed.), which provides a comprehensive doctrine and systems-based methodology for vulnerability assessment, planning, and implementation of layered physical security elements, and the School Security Assessment Tool, a web-based assessment that walks users through a tailorable vulnerability analysis and provides results and recommendations that can be integrated into a school’s existing safety and security plans.