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Q: What does the law say about safe schools?

The law requires each state to adopt a policy requiring that students who attend a persistently dangerous school or become victims of violent crimes on the grounds of a school they attend be allowed to attend a safe school within the same district.

Each state must establish, in consultation with a representative sample of school districts, a definition of what constitutes a "persistently dangerous" public elementary or secondary school. States must allow students who attend such schools, or who are the victims of a violent crime while on the grounds of the school they attend, to transfer to a safe public elementary or secondary school, including a public charter school, in the same district.

For more information see the Office of Safe and Drug Free schools home page.