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Crime and Safety in United States Schools: Selected Findings Regarding the Relationship of Interventions on the Rate of Student Removal from the Educational Setting for Disciplinary Reasons
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Heather L. Chadwell Dennis – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Providing students with equitable and safe learning experiences is a fundamental right; however school districts grapple with balancing student learning and student safety. In the Brown vs the Board of Education (1954) decision, the court identified education as a basic public responsibility and a principal instrument to facilitate understanding…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Legislation, Weapons, School Safety
Safety First: A Quantitative Study on Teachers' Perceptions of School Climate in Rural Louisiana Schools
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Brumfield-Sanders, Tongia M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this descriptive quantitative study was to explore the perceptions of school safety among middle and high school teachers in rural Louisiana. In order to achieve this objective, a specific research question was formulated pertaining to teacher perceptions. The Safe Communities Safe Schools (SCSS) survey was used to assess teachers'…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Middle Schools, High Schools
A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Campus Violence Prevention Plans at Three Illinois Higher Education Institutions
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Brown, Wade R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The postsecondary acts of violence at Virginia Technical University (VT) and Northern Illinois University (NIU) forced Illinois legislators to approve the "Campus Security Enhancement Act" in 2008 (110 ILCS 12/20). The "Act" requires all private and public postsecondary education institutions to develop a Campus Violence…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Violence, Colleges, Educational Legislation