The world we live in today faces school safety threats regularly. The Missouri School Boards’ Association’s Center for Education Safety has been using a video simulator for the past year to help train school employees for the worst. Alisa Nelson gets an...
(Columbia, MO) — The Missouri School Boards’ Association is urging parents to be cyber aware as the new school year begins. John McDonald of the organization’s Center for Education Safety says even an innocent back-to-school photo posted on social...
In a surprise move, Gov. Mike Kehoe removed former Missouri Senate President Pro Tem Charlie Shields of St. Joseph as president of the State Board of Education. Shields, a fellow Republican, was first appointed to the state board in August of 2012 and had been...
Missouri students are back in school and hundreds of school employees have already been trained to identify potential safety threats. Alisa Nelson talks to John McDonald, with the Missouri School Boards Association’s Center for Education Safety, who says threat...
Taking threats seriously is foundational, according to John McDonald, chief operating officer of the Missouri School Boards’ Association’s Center for Education Safety. That’s been his message to hundreds of Missouri school employees who have completed the...