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The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indian entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children (reports vary). Only two children survived.https://www.k12academics.com/school-shootings/history-school-shootings-united-states
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The Safe Schools Improvement Act (SSIA) amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 to protect every student from bullying and harassment in K-12 schools, regardless of actual or perceived race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, and religion. The bill provides flexibility to state and local education agencies to make schools safer.
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In 1994, Congress passed the Gun-Free Schools Act, which mandated that states receiving federal education funds enact zero tolerance policies requiring at least a one-year expulsion for students carrying weapons in schools. Prior to this, most discipline decisions were made at the district or school level.
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One of the most notorious school shooting to happen in the United States to this day, killed 13 people (15 including the shooters) and schools started doing lock down drills to better prepare themselves if a situation like this would ever occur. https://www.history.com/topics/1990s/columbine-high-school-shootings
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Since 2009, 177 schools have experienced a school shooting. 2016 had the highest number in the 2010's. Most of these occur as school is about to start for the day. https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/07/us/ten-years-of-school-shootings-trnd/
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One of the most heart breaking shootings occurred in the the town of Newport, Connecticut. This shooting was so devastating for the fact that it happened inside of an elementary school. From this day schools across the nation began having lock down drills to stop such a disaster. The school was demolished after the event to start a new for the students. https://abcnews.go.com/US/11-mass-deadly-school-shootings-happened-columbine/story?id=62494128
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By 2018, school security has grown to $2.7 billion. This amount does not include money for armed security. Some schools have made the students carry access cards in order to get into their building. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/local/school-shootings-and-campus-safety-industry/
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The Department of Justice announced that it had awarded more than $70 million for school safety through the STOP School Violence Act. A week earlier, Attorney General Jeff Sessions had announced $200,000 in funding to the National Association of School Resource Officers “to expand and update their curriculum to better support training programs,” the announcement said.
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Since the the 1840's the number of school shootings has grown to an unacceptable amount of 517 shootings. This number spiked in the 2010's with 180 shootings. It was after Sandy Hook that the lock down drills became much more enforced.
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This is an improved act over the SSIA and ESEA act. This act provides safety for gays, lesbians and anyone among the LGBTQ movement. Bullying those that are with the movement will not be tolerated. This act will also protect those with different religious backgrounds.
https://www.hrc.org/resources/safe-schools-improvement-act
