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School Security :: June 9, 2009

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Safety Training Goes Online at Berea City School District
The way Berea City School District used to train its nearly 1,000 faculty and staff members on health, safety, and compliance issues was to send a videotape on the given topic to one of its 12 schools. People would attend a staff meeting to watch the video and sign a sheet to prove they were in attendance. Then the video would be sent to the next school on the list. More

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Smethport District, Cheshire Academy Deploy Parent Alerts
A number of K-12 schools and districts have gone public with their adoption of an emergency notification service from Omnilert. More
Texas Ed Service Center Signs On for Parental Notification Services
The Texas Region 17 Education Service Center (ESC) has contracted with SchoolReach, a K-12 parent notification service, to make the contact system available to member schools at a discount. The service center is an organization created to provide services to schools in Region 17, which encompasses the 20 counties surrounding Lubbock, Texas. More
Blackboard Connect Used To Send 9.7 million Swine Flu-Related Messages at Height of Panic
Blackboard has reported that during just eight days, from April 27 to May 4, its notification system, Blackboard Connect, was used by United States schools and government workers to send some 9.8 million messages tied to updates and information about the swine flu. More
Batavia Public Schools Ramping Up Access Control and Video Surveillance
Batavia Public Schools District No. 101 in Illinois has closed bidding on an access control/surveillance system to cover its eight schools and district headquarters. According to local newspaper The Beacon News, 17 companies have bid on the project, which will be exploiting the bandwidth available from a district data communications network upgrade from 1 gigabit fiber to 10 gigabit fiber. More
Ann Arbor Public Schools Conducts Emergency Training
Ann Arbor Public Schools' administrators and staff have completed emergency plans and training with help from Prepared Response, which provides on-site emergency preparedness consulting and training to schools. More
Schools Roll Out Emergency Alert Systems
K-12 schools are continuing to adopt emergency alert systems in droves. Several have recently gone public with their adoption of a notification system from Omnilert to communicate both routine and emergency information to stakeholders. More
IT Dogged by Security Issues, Studies Find
Software security continues to trouble IT pros, who often have to do more with less in the current recession, according to two industry-sponsored studies. More

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