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Mulholland, Jessica – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
In New York's Port Washington Union Free School District, security and privacy for students, faculty, and staff coexist--thanks to security cameras with eyelids. In 2010, video cameras donated by New York-based SituCon Systems were installed in the main lobby at two of the district's seven schools. "We really haven't had the kind of incidents…
Descriptors: School Security, Video Technology, Photography, Technology Uses in Education
Kim, Catherine Y.; Geronimo, India – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
K-12 public schools across the country have begun to deploy law enforcement agents on school grounds in growing numbers. In 2004, 60% of high school teachers reported armed police officers stationed on school grounds, and in 2005, almost 70% of public school students ages 12 to 18 reported that police officers or security guards patrol their…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Security, Law Enforcement, Educational Environment
Pittman, Elaine – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
School systems and police departments are community partners, and ensuring student, faculty, and officer safety is a high priority for both. In Pennsylvania, police departments are being both innovative and proactive by using wireless technology to handle school safety. If there's an emergency, local police departments can increase situational…
Descriptors: Photography, School Safety, School Districts, Educational Technology
Aarons, Dakarai I. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
In the wake of the beating death of a Chicago high school student in September, law-enforcement officials and educators have called for renewed efforts to stem youth violence. But they also acknowledged that money and programs alone won't solve the problem. U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan traveled to…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Violence, Federal Programs, High School Students
Hardy, Lawrence – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2007
Superintendent Steve Joel had reason to be concerned when he got a call from the police chief telling him that federal immigration authorities were coming to the local Swift & Company meat-packing plant to round up undocumented workers as part of a six-state raid. Of the 8,000 students in the Grand Island School District in Central Nebraska,…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Police, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants
Kolmes, Jo-Ann – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1981
Presents country-by-country information on teacher militancy and the repression and victimization of teachers by Latin American military regimes, as reported to the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP). Condensed from "ATA Magazine," published by the Alberta (Canada) Teacher's Association, January 1981,…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Civil Liberties, Dissent, Elementary Secondary Education