Educators Told School Violence Can Be 'Preventable'

School security event was held Monday in Toms River.

School administrators can take simple steps to keep students safe, measures that can prevent a tragedy like the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting from happening again. Those in education and law enforcement can work together to ensure simple —and in some instances zero-cost — safety measures are in place. That could have prevented shooter Adam Lanza from killing 26 at the Connecticut school in December, said Dale Yaeger, CEO of security consulting firm Seraph in Toms River Monday. "I get tired of hearing excuses," he told a room of about 40 education representatives from 20 New Jersey school districts. "Things are preventable. You just have to put the right training in place, the right policies and be good at managing people." Had school …

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