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The shooting at Springfields Thurston High School in 1998 left four dead and 25 wounded. The healing continues 25 years later.

The shooting at Springfields Thurston High School in 1998 left four dead and 25 wounded. The healing continues 25 years later.

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Sparked by a mass murder at an elementary school in Uvalde Texas, Kalamazoo Public Schools has released their plans to fu...

Lightspeed Systems, a provider of online student safety technology, on Tuesday announced that it has acquired CatchOn, a learning analytics provider for schools, according to a news release.

Many parents credit monitoring systems like Frisco’s with saving their kids’ lives, but some privacy and civil liberties experts are sounding the alarm, saying well-meaning districts could be doing more harm than good. In February, Frisco ISD’s director of counseling, Stephanie Cook, told NBC-DFW that Frisco was up 200% in hospitalizations at the beginning of the year. And last fall, there was a point when there weren’t any vacant mental health beds for adolescents in Collin County, she...

Are kids Googling self-harm on school laptops? N.J. districts using software to monitor. Updated Feb 08, 2021; A South Jersey school district is using computer software to help find students who could be searching the internet for content related to self-harm or harming others. The Deptford school district is rolling out the pilot program on a software suite it uses on more than 2,800 laptops it has distributed to students in the 4,000 student pre-K to 12 district since the coronavirus pandemi...