What 2025 Taught Us About School Safety—and Why 2026 Can’t Be Business as Usual
School Safety Year-End Review: 2025 (5 Key Takeaways) 1. The gap between policy and practice remained the #1 risk factorDistricts continued to invest heavily in plans, systems, and vendors—yet too many incidents exposed breakdowns in training, supervision, communications, and decision-making at the point of impact. 2. Technology noise grew louder than operational disciplineAI weapon detection, […]
The Lies We Tell Ourselves — and Our School Communities — About School Safety
There are two big lies we keep telling ourselves — and our school communities — about school safety. The first is: “School safety is our number one top priority.”The second is: “You can’t put a cost on school safety.” Both sound good. Both feel good. And both are false. The Budget Reality School safety is, […]
Buyer Beware: As private equity creeps into the school security industry, school leaders face increased risks
Buyer Beware: As private equity creeps deeper into the hashtagschool security product and technology market, smaller companies get gobbled up into bigger entities.Bundled services. Louder marketing. Lobbyists hired. But quality risks going downhill.Our team worked with one district where a once-reputable visitor management system failed miserably across dozens of schools — challenges with service, unresolved […]