School leaders at Lancaster School District in California are taking a multipronged approach to keeping students safe from outside intruders and even from each other.
Located about an hour northeast of Los Angeles, the 15,000-student district serving pre-K through eighth grade began installing new IP security cameras across its 23 schools in December. About a third of the way into the deployment, school officials saw an immediate impact: a drop in the number of school fights.
“The world has gotten a little bit crazy, so we want to make sure we have the safest possible environment for our…