Our K-12 Schools Need Dedicated Safety Personnel Now More Than Ever29 sec read

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Robert Evans, Director of K-12 Services at COSECURE, was recently featured in Campus Safety Magazine, contributing an article alongside Peter Burrows on the importance of dedicated safety personnel in K-12 schools.

Building a staffing model that brings a part or full-time crisis planning position into the K-12 organizational structure will better protect schools.

“As schools across the country continue to struggle with increased threats of violence, we need to recalibrate our thinking about the time, resources, and specific skills required of those responsible for future school safety initiatives,” Evans and Burrows open this article.

Read it in full here.

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