Schools’ security efforts examined
Districts, regional superintendent work to improve safety for students
Five to eight minutes. That’s how long the average school attack lasts, school safety experts say.
That’s about all the time it took for an armed gunman to kill 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
In the months since that tragedy – much like other school shootings before it – there has been a flurry of solutions and schemes proposed to stop another from happening.
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