Together with health, the emphasis was laid out on school safety by promoting safe construction methods.
The question of school safety extends beyond guns to mental illness and societal influences.
Lawmakers now are only mulling stricter background checks, tougher gun-trafficking penalties and increased funding for school safety.
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Participants will be also requested to comment on a methodology for assessing school safety in the region.
The Second Global Platform (2009) called for national assessments of school safety and the inclusion of DRR in the school curricula.
He directed the Secretary to work more closely with UNESCO for rolling out School Health and School Safety initiatives in Sindh.
Other parents called for the community to rally before the hearing, which focused on gun violence, mental health and school safety.
But is racial parity in disciplinary outcomes more important than school safety?
It means that we take seriously issues mental health and school safety.
He spoke to reporters after delivering the keynote speech at a symposium on school safety at Purchase College in the New York suburbs.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is asking state lawmakers to allow Chicago to use red-light cameras to automatically ticket drivers who speed through school safety zones.
The other measures would expand required federal background checks for firearms buyers, increase federal penalties for illegal gun trafficking and boost school safety money.
The central theme of the seminar revolved around school health, school safety and overall behavior change for safe and healthy school environment in schools.
The package includes expanding background checks to all firearms sales, tougher laws against gun trafficking and straw purchases, and studying ways to improve school safety.
They also take related steps on mental health and school safety.
The goal is to enlist all Americans in supporting comprehensive solutions including a national dialogue around issues such as mental health, school safety and gun responsibility.
The same Senate committee has already approved expanding the requirement for background checks on gun buyers, increasing penalties for gun traffickers and boosting aid for school safety.
The participants of the workshop were oriented with global best practices, structural and non-structural measures including appropriate preparedness measures at school level in the context of school safety.
Dr. Kozue Kay Nagata in her speech said that UNESCO together with stakeholders has developed a comprehensive School Safety Plan, which has been recently endorsed by Government of Sindh.
The other proposals passed by the Judiciary Committee would expand background checks on gun sales, toughen laws against firearms trafficking and straw purchases, and design steps to improve school safety.
The NRA expressed disappointment with a White House task force meeting Thursday, saying it expected mental health, the "marketing of violence to our kids" and school safety to be major topics.
The bill also addresses mental health and school security measures, including gun restrictions for people who've been committed to mental health facilities and restoration of a state grant for school safety improvements.
The NRA said it was "disappointed" with a White House task force meeting Thursday, saying it expected mental health, the "marketing of violence to our kids" and school safety to be major topics.
As soon as next week, every senator will get a chance to vote on a proposal to help strengthen school safety and help people struggling with mental health problems get the treatment that they need.
The National Rifle Association said it was "disappointed" with a White House task force meeting Thursday, saying it expected mental health, the "marketing of violence to our kids" and school safety to be top topics.
It was recommended that school safety plan should be firmly adopted as an important disaster risk reduction measure in order to keep the children and community safe in case of floods, earthquake, tsunami and other natural disasters.
Proposals in the committee's package included expanding background checks on gun buyers, toughening laws against gun trafficking and straw purchases, banning semiautomatic rifles modeled after military assault weapons as well as large-capacity ammunition magazines, and coming up with ideas for improving school safety.
Proposals in the committee's package included expanding background checks on gun buyers, toughening laws against gun trafficking and straw purchases, banning semi-automatic rifles modeled after military assault weapons as well as large-capacity ammunition magazines, and coming up with ideas for improving school safety.
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They touted the package as a comprehensive response to Newtown that also addresses mental health and school security measures, including the creation of a new council to establish school safety standards and the expansion of circumstances when someone's mental history disqualifies him or her from obtaining a gun permit or other gun credentials.
The state would also establish a school-safety council to develop safety protocols for school-building projects.
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