Virginia School Safety Panel Will Be ‘Reasonable, Not Reactionary’
At first meeting, Loudoun Sheriff and others charged with evaluating school safety say they'll focus on experts and fact, not emotion.
By Whitney Spicer, Capital News Service Members of Gov. Bob McDonnell’s School and Campus Safety Task Force, including Loudoun Sheriff Mike Chapman, vowed Monday their recommendations on keeping Virginia’s schools safe would be based on fact and not emotion. The task force – charged with evaluating the safety of schools and campuses throughout the state – was assembled by McDonnell in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting last month in Newtown, Conn. “I thought in the wake of that terrible tragedy, it would be prudent to get all of our leading experts from all disciplines together to gather around a table or two, and talk about what can we do better,” McDonnell said. After a gunman shot and killed 20 children and six …
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