UVALDE, Texas -- In a new twist in the Uvalde elementary school mass shooting, a source has confirmed to ABC News that as police waited for more than an hour in a hallway outside the classrooms where ...

SOMERSET, Wis. (WFLA) – In the wake of the deadly mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a student in Wisconsin is hard at work trying to make classrooms safer. Justin Rivard is a ...

Whether facing an active shooter emergency or another type of lockdown situation in school, it is vital for staff to be able to successfully secure classrooms from the inside to protect students from ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Locking classroom doors is common practice in Palm Beach County public schools, but WPTV has uncovered there are a handful of classroom doors that don't lock. Now the school ...

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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — A new mandate in Palm Beach County public schools will require all classroom doors to be locked when school is in session. WPTV first reported in June that a handful of ...

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Robb Elementary School, in Uvalde, Texas, where a shooter killed 21 people in May, had problems with locks on both interior classroom doors and entrances and exits to the school building, according to ...

Conversations about “hardening” schools resurface after every mass school shooting. And so do questions about how the shooters manage to get into classrooms. There have been 27 school shootings in ...