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School Shootings This Year: How Many and Where
Education Week is tracking K-12 school shootings in 2026 with injuries or deaths. See the number of incidents and where they occurred.
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School Climate & Safety Sandy Hook Promise CEO: 'School Shootings Are Preventable'
There have been 152 shootings on K-12 school property that resulted in firearm-related injuries or deaths since 2018.
Lauraine Langreo, March 9, 2023
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People light candles at a makeshift memorial outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 18, 2018. Seventeen students and faculty were killed in a mass shooting days earlier in Parkland, Fla.
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School Climate & Safety Five Years After Parkland Tragedy, School Shooting Numbers Grow
Here's a look at the numbers and the research on school shootings since the 2018 massacre at a Florida high school.
Elizabeth Heubeck, February 13, 2023
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4 min read
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School Climate & Safety Chaos, Disruption as More Schools Respond to Hoax 'Swatting' Reports
Faux reports of school shootings disrupted schools in at least three states this week.
Evie Blad, February 8, 2023
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5 min read
Education Week opinion letters submissions
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School Climate & Safety Letter to the Editor There Are No Quick Fixes to School Shootings
"Unless we get serious about community safety, there will be no school safety," says this letter to the editor.
February 7, 2023
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A young boy with dark hair and a coral-colored t-shirt walked behind a police car alongside his mother, a woman wearing a long-sleeved white shirt who has her arm wrapped around his shoulder.
Carlos Glover, age 9, a 4th grader at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., is held by his mother, Joselin Glover, as they leave the school Jan. 6 following a shooting there.
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School Climate & Safety The School Shooting Incidents Nobody Hears About
Many school gun incidents receive little attention, despite the profound effects they have on students and educators.
Evie Blad, January 12, 2023
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Signs that say "get better fast," "you are in our hearts," "we love Richneck," and "we stand by you" are stuck to the hunter green front doors of Richneck Elementary School.
Messages of support for teacher Abby Zwerner, who authorities say was shot by a 6-year-old student, grace the front door of Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., on Jan. 9. The teacher is known as a hard-working educator who’s devoted to her students and enthusiastic about the profession that runs in her family.
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School Climate & Safety A 6-Year-Old Shot His Teacher. Who Should Be Held Responsible?
The wounded teacher got her students to safety. Elementary-aged school shooters are very rare, data show.
Evie Blad, January 9, 2023
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Police respond to a shooting at Richneck Elementary School, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023 in Newport News, Va. A shooting at a Virginia elementary school sent a teacher to the hospital and ended with “an individual” in custody Friday, police and school officials in the city of Newport News said.
A police officer outside the Newport News, Va., elementary school where a 1st grader shot and injured a teacher last week. On the same day of the shooting, teachers attending a National Education Association summit on gun violence were meeting in Washington to call for making educators a more central part of discussions on how to stop shootings in schools.
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School Climate & Safety 'This Is Not the Job We Signed Up to Do': Teachers Speak Out Against School Shootings
The largest teachers' union is taking new steps to confront gun violence in schools.
Madeline Will, January 9, 2023
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School Climate & Safety Interactive School Shootings in 2023: How Many and Where
Education Week tracked K-12 school shootings in 2023 with injuries or deaths. See the number of incidents and where they occurred.
January 6, 2023
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3 min read
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School Climate & Safety Infographic School Shootings in 2022: 4 Key Takeaways
Education Week counted more school shootings in 2022 than in any other year since the news organization began tracking them.
Evie Blad, Laura Baker, Hyon-Young Kim & Holly Peele, December 31, 2022
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Anthony Salvatore, a former assistant principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School, places a rose on the memorial to the educators and students slain at Sandy Hook Elementary School to commemorate 10 years since the shooting.
Anthony Salvatore, a former assistant principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School, places a rose on the memorial to the educators and students slain at Sandy Hook to commemorate 10 years since the mass shooting that killed 26 people.
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School Climate & Safety Still Adding Names: How a Memorial to Honor Teachers Killed at Sandy Hook Looks Today
The tragedy in Newtown, Conn., moved educators halfway across the country to build a memorial to honor school staff who died on the job.
Denisa R. Superville, December 15, 2022
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A tree sits in the middle of a round stone water feature surrounded by a round stone pathway at night. Benches around the edge of the pathway are lit with warm lights.
A visitor to the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial sits on one of the benches during twilight in Newtown, Conn. The names of the 20 first graders and six educators killed a short distance away at Sandy Hook Elementary School 10 years ago are engraved in concrete around a memorial pool with a sycamore tree in the middle.
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School Climate & Safety Photos PHOTOS: A Decade After the Sandy Hook Shooting
A look back at the grief and activism that followed the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which claimed 26 lives 10 years ago.
Evie Blad & Jaclyn Borowski, December 13, 2022
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2 min read
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Scarlett Lewis, founder of the Choose Love Movement, talks to students at Washington Middle School in Meriden, Conn., in 2020. Lewis started Choose Love in honor of her son, Jesse, who was killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
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School Climate & Safety A Decade Later, How the Newtown Shooting Changed the School Safety Conversation
School safety now increasingly focuses on identifying students who may pose a threat and providing emotional support.
Evie Blad, December 12, 2022
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8 min read
Flowers lay next to the name of Charlotte Bacon, carved in the stone of a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, in Newtown, Conn., Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022.
Flowers lie next to the name of Charlotte Bacon, carved in the stone of a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, in Newtown, Conn.
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School Climate & Safety 10 Years After Newtown Shooting: Schools, Communities Forge Rituals of Remembrance
The occasion is a mix of both deeply private and public mourning. Educators can support the complexities of grief in their own communities.
Evie Blad, December 9, 2022
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8 min read
Santa Fe High School freshman, Jai Gillard, writes messages on each of the 10 crosses representing victims in front of the school in Santa Fe, Texas, on May 21, 2018.
Santa Fe High School freshman, Jai Gillard, writes messages on each of the 10 crosses representing victims in front of the school in Santa Fe, Texas, on May 21, 2018.
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School Climate & Safety Video They Survived a School Shooting. Here’s What They Want You to Know
The survivors of one school shooting offer insight and advice to future school leaders dealing with similar tragedies in their communities.
Lauren Santucci, November 17, 2022
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