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SCHOOL SECURITY School? Your SAFET Y CONFERENCE Education There is no room
left for thinking about leaders gathered in the nation's capital to
discuss school crime prevention methods. much of anything other than test
scores. There's the lack of focus on school safety Priorities Questioned
that we had after Columbine. While school safety ranks among educators'
top issues, Houston says it Paul Houston, executive director, AASA moves
up and down their list of priori- ties depending upon their district's
challenges and national events. school safety that we had after Col-
develop a balanced perspective and Before the Columbine shootings in u mbi
ne. We've got to refocus people approach to school safety. Over- 1999 that
left 15 people dead, he says back on school safety. reac t i ng by
building a prison like some educators believed that violence Besides
developing safety and environment in schools can create couldn't happen at
their school. Col- emergency plans which some even bigger safety issues.
umbine single-handedly changed their schools still lack he says educators
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