When I first started working in schools, response drills for violent incidents were rare, uncomfortable, and often avoided altogether. Fire drills, on the other hand, were routine—scheduled, practiced ...

A heavy emergency presence at a Clinton High School campus Wednesday was part of a planned training exercise and not a real emergency.

Today, I received an email from my kids' third-grade teacher in the PSD school district saying there had been a tornado drill ...

School lockdown drills have become commonplace across Minnesota in the last two decades, after deadly shootings at Rocori High School in central Minnesota in 2003 and Red Lake High School in northern ...