Ken Trump’s Blog

• School safety leaders: Focus on your core school security mission and functions (Lessons from recent Secret Service catastrophic security failures)
• Growing legal school safety mandates and proposed consultant/vendor-driven school security “standards” may mean well, but many create unrealistic mandates that are impossible for schools to comply with
• Retired? Briefly Hired? Fired? Strategic school safety leaders need to look deeper at job titles used by security vendors
• Superintendents can learn a critical school safety lesson from the now-former Secret Service director: You can handle an investigation properly, but you may lose your job if you bungle the communications
• From the White House to the schoolhouse, there is no perfect security – but by focusing on human factors, we can reduce risks