Worse, the school violence was getting out of control with two shootings in the last year alone.
The international federation of researchers on violence in schools began in 1998, an initiative of the European Observatory on School Violence.
George Bush has now called for a conference on school violence.
Their reports on school violence advise instituting techniques of early detection and threat assessment as the means most likely to succeed in stopping school killings.
School violence has always ignited a unique kind of human horror.
This time around Sen Max Cleland, a Georgia Democrat whose homestate became the latest location of school violence Thursday, switched his vote and supported the measure.
The World Conferences on School Violence (2001 in Paris, 2003 in Quebec, 2005 in Bordeaux) have been regularly organized by the International Observatory on Violence in Schools.
Clinton used the occasion to announce an Oct. 15 White House summit on school violence, in answer to the recent spate of school shootings and other crime problems in and around the nation's schools.
Jackson Katz, author of The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help, has developed Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP), a gender violence, bullying and school violence prevention program.
Being a space for dialogue for those who are concerned with the phenomenon of school violence, the World Conferences brings together researchers and practitioners from all over the world to share the ideas and experiences to combat school violence.
"They should have notified all the parents, " said Grisalda Tavarez, whose 10th-grade daughter transferred to Williamsburg Charter High School to escape violence in her previous public school.
Uruapan is among the metropolitan areas in Mexico tapped for the president's new program, which aims to prevent violence, school dropouts, addiction and domestic violence, and also to better detect problems in Mexico's education system.
During those eight days, Wei, Tong and the other students met in Philadelphia's Chinatown neighborhood during school hours, doing their schoolwork, holding rallies, and talking about ways to deal with violence at the school.
The funding comes as a grant under the Project School Emergency Response to Violence program.
Polygamy is widely blamed for social ills ranging from school absenteeism to street violence.
"We take the problem of violence in school very seriously and support groups trying to address it, " he said.
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Published by the Justice Policy Institute, it says that gun violence outside school is a far bigger threat to children.
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Its rate of reported domestic violence among school-aged children is .02 percent.
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It based the draft legislation on proposals created by 16-member bicameral working groups on the topics of gun violence, school security and mental health.
If there is violence at the school, he works with the local authorities to secure the property.
You can sign the petition supporting the girls and teachers who are demanding they go to school free of intimidation and violence at www.educationenvoy.org.
The BJP's alleged harassment of minorities, its efforts to introduce elements of Hindu nationalism in school curriculums and rising urban violence also contributed to the debacle.
In attendance were family members of victims who were killed by teen dating violence, high school and college students, and a variety of organizations and school association representatives.
Violence in the city made headlines, when high school honor student Hadiya Pendleton was gunned down at age 15 in gang violence.
Three miles down the road is Carver High, a rough local school which was plagued by gang violence.
SyFy pulled an episode of Haven, which would have aired this Friday, and contained scenes of fictitious violence in a high school setting.
Concern about the issue prompted the National Association of Attorneys General to pass a resolution last month encouraging states to work with local school districts to implement teen dating violence education policies.
Picoult's novel told the story of a bullied, alienated high school student who commits an act of violence.
Other parents called for the community to rally before the hearing, which focused on gun violence, mental health and school safety.
Prosecutors noted that the boy had a history of violence dating back to nursery school, when he stabbed a teacher with a pencil.
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