Despite More Shootings in 2024, Schools Are Still ‘Among the Safest Places for Youth'
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Despite the high-profile headlines around school shootings in 2024 and more incidents from 2023, schools are one of the safest places for young people, according to safety experts. Jaclyn Schildkraut, executive director for the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium at the Rockefeller Institute of Government, said that while the group doesn’t have a generally accepted data source to track the number of mass shootings at K-12 schools, it found only one in 2023 — the Nashville Covenant School shooting. Schildkraut told Chalkboard News that 2024 had three such mass school shootings: one at Perry High School in Perry, Iowa, another at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia and, most recently, the shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin.
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