PORTAGE, MI - Portage Public Schools will spend more than $600,000 to build secure entries at nine buildings. The Portage school board Monday approved a $606,100 contract with Frederick Construction of Vicksburg for stepped up building security measures that come in part because of last year's Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut.
SOUTH HAVEN - Like those in many school districts, South Haven schools officials plan to beef up school security after December's Sandy Hook school massacre.
KALAMAZOO, MI -- The Michigan Department of Education isn't buying Kalamazoo Public Schools' explanation as to why the district isn't reporting physical assaults on the annual school safety report that KPS submits to the state. "They say they're basing it on state law.
"Our school campuses are designed to inspire creativity, personal responsibility, collaboration, pride and achievement. We have multiple safeguards in place, but we cannot totally eliminate the possibility of an act of evil taking place."
