The shooting death of a student at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem brought local and state leaders together Thursday in mourning and to recognize the heroism of local police and faculty. Gov. Roy Cooper traveled to Winston Salem for the news conference and took the opportunity to call for more school spending on “wraparound...
The Physical Safety and Security working group — a subset of the House Select Committee on Safer Schools — met briefly Wednesday, May 2 to approve recommendations on improving school security. Seven recommendations — from more money for school resource officers to vulnerability assessments of school facilities — will go to the full committee for...
This week my usual education commentary seems to fade into insignificance. Like many of us, I continue to be saddened by Monday’s tragic shootings at Virginia Tech. As the mother of a college senior, I am especially shaken by these events, recognizing that my son’s university could just as easily have been attacked.
