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NBC News: Uvalde school’s classroom doors lacked a basic security feature—and it’s missing across America

August 19, 2022|Partner Alliance for Safer Schools

A recent NBC News article details how the classroom doors at Robb Elementary could not be locked from the inside. As the article notes, it’s a vulnerability that many school safety and security experts, including PASS Partners, have warned about for decades.

Here‘s an excerpt from the article:

Despite billions of dollars that have been poured into hardening schools nationally, 1 in 4 U.S. public schools lack classroom doors that can be locked from the inside, according to a survey conducted two years ago by the National Center on Education Statistics, a federal research office.

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