RANTOUL – Students were settled in J.W. Eater Junior High School classrooms, ready to learn, when Bill Trankina walked into the office shortly after 8:30 a.m. Thursday with Kevin Kaiser."I ...

“Code Red” drills are precautionary measures against what used to be unthinkable – school shooters. They’re not mandated by most states, but more and more schools are doing them.

The sound of cawing crows replaced children’s voices in the schoolyard last week during an eerily still afternoon at JLS Middle School. Rather than playing, students were huddled behind ...

FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – After the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland last year, Florida legislators mandated that schools conduct monthly code red drills. But now ...

After hearing from many parents over the past five days, Lemma issued a promise, saying, "The bottom line is this -- we are no longer going to do these unannounced code red drills in that manner ...

Some parents are questioning whether 'code red' drills at schools are traumatizing students, others are confused as to why some are unannounced. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays.

Code red drills are now a necessary part of children’s school experience. And in Florida, they are legally required.But while we’re protecting children’s physical safety, I wonder if we ...

Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said his agency is changing the way it conducts “Code Red” exercises at local schools after an unannounced drill at Lake Brantley High School panicked ...

Before the shooting in Parkland, all Broward public schools held 101 code red drills, combined. There wasn’t a code red drill held at MSD in the months before the shooting.