Lockdown drills and other such training unfortunately remain essential tools for preparing students for the horrid possibility of gun violence in their schools. Last month, the state Board of Regents ...

New York, home of the nation’s largest school district, is banning realistic active shooter drills, following years of activism by parents and lawmakers who say the drills traumatize children, ...

Students are evacuated after a fictional threat is controlled during an active shooter drill on Monday, June 13, 2016, at Chango Elementary School in Malta, N.Y. Such drills are now banned during any ...

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Some Long Island parents, students and educators are praising new state regulations that prohibit realistic "active shooter" drills during school hours and mandate that schools notify parents and ...