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Chad R. Vinansky – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In 2018, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) enacted a new law called Act 44, which provided new form of funding for school safety in school districts across the State of Pennsylvania. The study focused on how school superintendents and high school principals prioritized each category in Pennsylvania Act 44 from highest to the lowest…
Descriptors: State Legislation, School Safety, Superintendents, Principals
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Hoke, Alicia M.; Keller, Chelsea M.; Calo, William A.; Sekhar, Deepa L.; Lehman, Erik B.; Kraschnewski, Jennifer L. – Journal of School Nursing, 2021
Pennsylvania responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by closing schools and moving to online instruction in March 2020. We surveyed Pennsylvania school nurses (N = 350) in May 2020 to assess the impact of COVID-19 on nurses' concerns about returning to school and impact on practice. Data were analyzed using X[superscript 2] tests and regression…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Flynn, Kalen; McDonald, Catherine C.; D'Alonzo, Bernadette A.; Tam, Vicky; Wiebe, Douglas J. – Journal of School Nursing, 2018
School violence is a public health issue with direct and collateral consequences that has academic and social impacts for youth. School violence is often considered a uniquely urban problem, yet more research is needed to understand how violence in rural and suburban schools may be similar or different from urban counterparts. Using school…
Descriptors: Violence, Factor Analysis, Bullying, School Safety
Moore, Mark H., Ed.; Petrie, Carol V., Ed.; Braga, Anthony A., Ed.; McLaughlin, Brenda L., Ed. – 2002
This collection of papers is the outcome of the National Academies' effort to glean information from six different case studies of student-perpetrated school shootings. Part 1, "Case Studies of Lethal School Violence," includes: "The Copycat Factor: Mental Illness, Guns, and the Shooting Incident at Heritage High School, Rockdale…
Descriptors: Bullying, Guns, Homicide, Mental Disorders
Price-Johnson, Connie; Powers, Stephen – Online Submission, 2004
The purpose of this study was to examine exemplary communication efforts of 12 selected outstanding schools in the United States. The methodology employed was case study methodology supplemented by interviews with key educational administrators. The results show unusual and outstanding ways that schools communicate with parents and the public, as…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Administrators, Case Studies, School Safety
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DeRosier, Melissa E.; Newcity, Janet – Journal of School Violence, 2005
This study assessed school climate for both interpersonal and intrapersonal character traits and examined the links between school climate and students' perceptions of safety at school. Sixty-four elementary and 159 secondary students completed questionnaires in the spring. Findings revealed that character traits were reliably assessed for both…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, School Safety, Questionnaires, Personality Traits