On Feb. 7, Ali Cannon from Sandy Hook Promise visited CCTI to train students and staff on the recently initiated Safe2Say Something alert system. Safe2Say Something is an anonymous reporting system st...
A metal detector is coming to the entrance at Palmerton Area High School, district officials said during Tuesday night’s board meeting, as the next step in districtwide security upgrades.
When it is u...
The days of peer-to-peer contact only taking place within the confines of a school building are in the past. Social media and the age of 24/7 communication possibilities have only ramped up the potent...
Long before Columbine, Sandy Hook and Parkland, school district officials throughout the country were concerned with student safety.
In the era of the Cold War, students took part in air raid drills b...
The union representing teachers in the Tamaqua Area School District has standing to bring a lawsuit against the district over the implementation of a policy allowing employees to carry firearms in sch...
Weatherly Area School District has received a school safety grant totaling $333,773.
School board members will alleviate $60,000 in expenditures and will allow the use of funds to pay for the Intralog...
The Panther Valley school board recently approved contracts to improve security features at all of its buildings, and to add new dugouts to the high school softball field.
The work includes software w...
Let’s see. Here’s a back-to-school shopping list: notebooks, pens, highlighters, index cards, bulletproof backpack.
How’s that again? Bulletproof backpack?
That’s right. In the wake of the mass shooti...
The Tamaqua Area School District safety commission had its first meeting on Monday night at the Tamaqua Area Middle School, paving the way for a new policy on arming staff.
The commission members incl...
It was the first day back to the school year for longtime school bus driver Dennis McGinley. It could have been a tragic one.
That day two cars ignored his stop sign and lights, passing his bus from b...