dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Senate Finance Committee on Friday upped the ante on both chambers’ efforts to enable schools to put some form of security guards in their hallways. The […]
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Senate committee advances two school safety bills: armed guards, panic alarms
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Senate Education Committee sailed through two school safety bills Tuesday morning. One resurrects the West Virginia Guardian Program. The other would require public schools to install […]
Additional safety officers hired for Mon Schools
Monongalia County Schools just warmed up its safety net for every student, in every classroom, in the district. Four new safety officers were recently hired – and their job description […]
‘It’s everyone’s responsibility’: School safety initiative heavy on detection, prevention
No one paid the weapons detector any mind on a recent, bustling mid-weekday at Morgantown High School. Students and teachers, already in the building, walked by the gray sentinel’s twin […]
Preston Schools working to improve school safety
KINGWOOD — The risk of a school shooting is ever present. The recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 students and two teachers were murdered, only reiterates the need for […]
Keeping kids safe: State delegates hold session on school safety
It didn’t take long for Rob Cunningham to cut to the heart of the matter Tuesday afternoon in Charleston. Forty-eight hours after a mass shooting last month at an elementary […]
Legislature to meet in Charleston for three days of interim meetings; House plans general session on school safety
MORGANTOWN — After visiting Morgantown in May, the Legislature returns to Charleston Sunday-Tuesday for June interim meetings. Headlining this round is a House of Delegates general session on school safety, […]
