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Denver Public Schools are closed Friday so students and employees can have a mental health day, the district announced, following a shooting at East High School earlier this week in
Student safety plans and pat-downs like the one performed at Denver's East High School on Wednesday have come into focus since the shooting, shining a light on how schools in Colorado and elsewhere routinely deal with a wide range of students' behavioral concerns.
A shooting at East High School in Denver Wednesday morning and the hunt for the perpetrator prompted Buena Vista schools to go into secure status and a law enforcement presence
In 2020, Denver’s school board unanimously terminated the district’s contract with Denver police and removed school resource officers (SROs). Since then, guns and other weapons have proliferated on school grounds.
On Thursday following the shooting at East High School, students, staff and parents from schools across Denver gathered outside the Colorado Capitol. Hundreds of people swarmed the doors into the capitol toting t-shirts demanding action or showing the East High School logo and signs with pleads to end gun violence.