By Julia Shumway | Editor
“In my own experience, just about every school has a locked door and some sort of electronic doorbell, and that wasn’t the case 10 years ago. Pretty much every bond campaign I’ve looked at since at least 2020 mentioned safety improvements.” — Oregon School Boards Association spokesperson Jake Arnold. Over the past decades, voters have approved billions of dollars for school infrastructure upgrades, including millions specifically for safety features like automatically locking doors, hardened glass windows and alarm systems added in large part because of school shootings.
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