Policy Timeline

By KaitlinOConnell

  • The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (JJDPA)

    The national youth violence prevention law administered by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), authorized programs to address these issues in schools. Two congressionally mandated reports (released in 1975 and 1978, respectively) found that school violence and disciplinary problems—including the use of drugs and alcohol and weapons carrying—were on the rise across the nation’s school systems

  • JJDPA

    reauthorization of the JJDPA created new programs to combat the presence of gangs in schools

  • 1994 Safe School Policy

    the Safe Schools Act of 1994, directed the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to eligible LEAs for projects aimed at ensuring that all schools are safe and free of violence

  • ESEA

    1994 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA)—the nation’s education reform law administered by ED—introduced new federal school safety programs.

  • 1994 Congress passed the Gun-Free Schools Act,

    This policy mandated that states receiving federal education funds enact zero tolerance policies requiring at least a one-year expulsion for students carrying weapons in schools. Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 required local education agencies (LEAs), as a condition of receiving federal education assistance, to have in effect a “zero tolerance” policy.7
    This policy required the expulsion from school for at least one year of any student who brought a gun, knife, or other weapon to school

  • Response: A Guide to Safe Schools.

    In August 1998, ED and the DOJ released a report titled Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools.

  • COPS- School Policy

    the COPS in Schools program to fund the hiring and training of school resource officers, and the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative to fund interagency, community-based violence prevention and behavioral health programs for school-age children and youth

  • Combine High School Shooting

  • SDFSCA

    SDFSCA provided large-scale federal support for school- and community-based programs to prevent youth violence and alcohol and other drug use.

  • Safe School Initiative

    U.S. Secret Service launched the Safe School Initiative to study the thinking, planning, and other pre-attack behaviors of school shooters.

  • Heritage High School Shooting

  • Deming Middle School

  • Fort Gibson Middle School

  • Secure Our Schools program

    assist schools in acquiring the latest facility safety systems and services.

  • Beull Elementary School

  • Lake Worth Elementary School

  • University of Washington Medical Center

  • University of Arkansas

  • Woodson Middle School

  • Junipero Serria High School

  • Martin Luther King High School

  • Santana High School

  • Bishop Neumann High School

  • Grante Hills High School

  • Lew Wellace High SChool

  • Pacific Lutheran Univeristy

  • DOJ launched Project Sentry

    the DOJ launched Project Sentry, a program designed to prevent gun violence in schools by providing U.S. Attorney’s offices with additional resources to combat violations of federal and state firearms laws involving juveniles, prosecute adults who illegally give firearms to juveniles, and promote school safety through community outreach efforts

  • Appalachia School of Law

  • Washington High School

  • Readiness and Emergency Management

    ED launched the Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools program to support LEA efforts in developing and improving emergency response and crisis plans at both the school district and individual school-building levels

  • Red Lake Senior High School

  • West Nickel Mines School

  • Virginia Tech

  • Bullying Prevention- School Safety

    the White House Conference on Bullying Prevention brought together students, teachers, advocates, the private sector, and policymakers to discuss ways to combat bullying and cyberbullying

  • Oikos University

  • Sandy Hook Elementary School

  • University of California-Santa Barbara campus

  • Umpqua Community College

  • Rancho Tehama Elementary School

  • STOP School Violence Act of 2018

    fund safety training for schools, students and local law enforcement; anonymous reporting systems to disclose threats; and threat assessment and crisis intervention teams

  • Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida,

  • Santa Fe High School