Everyone wants campus communities to be safe, supportive places where students, educators, parents, and staff feel welcome. Ensuring school safety requires considering what research tells us about how to make schools physically safe and how to create positive climates where all students and adults have strong, trust-based relationships.
In this guide, you will find more information about research-based school safety strategies and the pitfalls of some approaches that may sound promising, but that don't actually work to create safer schools.
This guide is not meant to provide legal advice, either general or specific. For legal advice, you should consult a lawyer. Legal aid or the Texas State Bar may be able to help you find a lawyer. If the impacted student has a disability, Disability Rights Texas may be able to help. If the impacted student has a disciplinary issue at a public school and lives in the greater Houston area, the Juvenile and Children’s Advocacy Project may be able to help.