Office of the Attorney General of Texas, 2007. Protecting our children from harm is more important today than ever before. This is especially true in school settings. Children must have a safe and positive learning environment in order to receive the education they deserve.
In recent years, tragic school shootings such as those at Virginia Tech University and Columbine High School in Colorado have focused the nation’s attention on the need for secure campuses. Here in Texas, we are committed to ensuring that schools are safe havens of learning for our children – free from violent tragedies and other behaviors that threaten students’ safety.
The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is strongly committed to assisting local school administrators as they create and maintain a safe, positive learning environment for their students. To that end, we have joined with the Texas School Safety Center to offer several resources intended to foster school safety. The first of these resources is this School Safety Guide, a practical resource handbook from the OAG that covers the laws applicable to Texas public schools. This Guide can help provide direction to school officials in handling a variety of school safety and disciplinary problems.
