{"id":253311,"date":"2026-05-23T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/see-which-safety-technologies-schools-are-betting-on\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:20:07","slug":"see-which-safety-technologies-schools-are-betting-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/see-which-safety-technologies-schools-are-betting-on\/","title":{"rendered":"See Which Safety Technologies Schools Are Betting On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/leadership\/see-which-safety-technologies-schools-are-betting-on\/2026\/05\">See Which Safety Technologies Schools Are Betting On<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/leadership\/see-which-safety-technologies-schools-are-betting-on\/2026\/05\">https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/leadership\/see-which-safety-technologies-schools-are-betting-on\/2026\/05<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-23 09:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.edweek.org\">www.edweek.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As school systems across the country continue to grapple with the grim consequences of shootings on their campuses, district and schools are pouring money into technologies meant to keep students safe\u2014despite those systems\u2019 flaws and limitations.<\/p>\n<p>A new EdWeek Research Center survey sheds light on the kinds of tools K-12 administrators are betting on.<\/p>\n<p>The top two tech-enabled security systems that schools are using are chemical and acoustic monitoring devices placed in bathrooms and locker rooms (31% of survey respondents said their districts or schools use them) and artificial intelligence-enabled security camera monitoring to detect threats or fights (25%), according to the nationally representative survey.<\/p>\n<p>The other technologies used are passive screening systems that identify weapons without metal detectors (21%), digital\/biometric locks that don\u2019t require fobs or keys (17%), and wearable silent panic alarms for staff (19%).<\/p>\n<p>The 753 participants in the online survey included 116 district leaders and 41 school principals. It was administered from March 25th through May 5th, 2026. Only district leaders and principals responded to the question about which security tools their districts and schools are using.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, EdWeek Market Brief reported that the U.S. school security market was projected to grow by more than 8%, an increase from the $3.1 billion that was spent the year before.<\/p>\n<p>Technology is only one strategy available to school districts that are trying to bolster school safety. Research from the University of Colorado Boulder recommends four strategies to create safe school environments: Schools should create a specific team to assess safety strategies, administer climate surveys annually, implement multitiered systems to address student behavior, and be thoughtful about the selection of technology systems. <\/p>\n<p>The tech options schools are rolling out include not only locks, alarms, and screening systems, but also drones.<\/p>\n<p>Eight schools in Georgia and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/leadership\/see-which-safety-technologies-schools-are-betting-on\/2026\/05\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See Which Safety Technologies Schools Are Betting On https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/leadership\/see-which-safety-technologies-schools-are-betting-on\/2026\/05 Publish Date: 2026-05-23 09:15:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/epe.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/5482ab0\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5607x3738+0+0\/resize\/945x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fepe-brightspot.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fea%2Fa8%2F8d82a2f14284b9f13c19181ce108%2Fschool-safety-guns-24136812107595.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-253311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253313,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253311\/revisions\/253313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}