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July 5, 2023
7 Ways to Improve School Safety for the 2023–2024 School Year
In 2021, our Eastern DataComm team released a blog regarding five ways to improve school safety. Today, with over twenty recent incidents of school violence continuing to devastate districts across the country, we’re revisiting this topic with renewed focus. As we continue our commitment to be part of the solution, we’re bringing you seven ways …
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June 5, 2023
10 Key Steps for Teachers and Administrators to Facilitate A Safe and Secure Lockdown: The 2023 Update
Our nation continues to witness senseless violence in our schools. It’s more important than ever for administrators, faculty, law enforcement, parents, and guardians to work together to ensure the safety and security of their community’s students. In an earlier article, our team at Eastern DataComm explored what teachers can do in an emergency lockdown. This …
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May 5, 2023
School Safety Lessons Learned from the 2022–2023 School Year
While school shooting tragedies continue to flood the headlines of our local and national news outlets (with 16 school shootings this year alone), district stakeholders are doing what they can to prevent such incidents from occurring in their own school communities. And if you find yourself among those committed to making their school communities safer, …
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April 24, 2023
6 Key Insights on Emergency Notification From Our Latest Live School Safety Seminar Series
Our Eastern DataComm team recently hosted a series of live, in-person seminars spanning New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut. School officials and stakeholders whose responsibility it is to ensure the safety of their campuses came from far and wide to join us for this educational experience. The series was incredibly well-received by our attendees …
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March 1, 2023
5 Can’t-Miss Grant Opportunities to Fund School Safety Improvements
Did you know that there are a variety of funding resources to improve your school’s safety technology? In fact, after the Parkland Florida tragedy in 2018, the government instituted a 1-billion dollars in spending over 10 years dedicated to improving school safety. Now schools are beginning to utilize that funding in earnest. And in order …
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