Why PASS?
The Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) offers the most comprehensive information available on best practices specifically for securing school facilities, vetted extensively by experts across the education, public safety and industry sectors.
PASS School Safety and Security Guidelines
The information, tools and insight needed to implement a tiered approach to securing and enhancing the safety of school environments based on individual needs, nationwide best practices and effective utilization of available resources.
The U.S. Surgeon General declared youth e-cigarette use to be a public health epidemic in 2018. As but one of many examples of how pervasive and damaging the youth e-cigarette epidemic has been to our nation’s K12 schools, the 2019 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) found that 27.5% of high school students (4.11 million) and 10.5% of middle school students (1.24 million) self-reported being current e-cigarette users.
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Meet our newest PASS leader, Jeremy Gulley. Learn more about him and how he used the PASS Guidelines to improve safety and security in his school district.
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Cybersecurity threats such as ransomware attacks are a growing concern for K-12 schools nationwide. Learn how to protect your campus with insights from cybersecurity expert, Will Knehr.
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To grow the work that PASS has been doing to make schools safer and more secure, we need the support of companies and organizations like yours.
Our partners include stakeholders throughout the education, public safety and industry sectors that share our vision for improving school safety.