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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaekn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points After the school shooting in Parkland, F rida, President Donald T-rump tasked amulti- agency effort to re'ew best practices for scrol s afety, ich issued landt;rk Fed-- eral ommissaon on ocnooi Safety FCSS) report containing practical and actionable advice to keep students safe. .1After the scho' shooting 'n Oxtord, t ign wi tch ---udgng by a lawsuit f.ied against the school d.strict-appeared to paral;:l the Parkland shooting with red flags missed and adrn'nstratve rissteps rmade, the iyen adrninstration declared that the FCSS no longer reflected fideral policy. here is a willfu cam^paign from social ustice advocacy organizations to fight ogoinst some of the key best practices FCSS idntified. A0n exarninaton of the alleged crcum- starces of the Oxford shooting suggests that school leaders should take trir cues on scoOl safety not frorn advocacy oroanizations or the hiden administration but from a carefu ivaluation of pravous tragedes. On February i., 2orS. a former student walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, with a semiautomatic rifle. He iurdered 17 people and wounded 17 others. The Associated Press labeled the Parkland school shooting the story of the year for 20.1 }-Iowever, Alexander Russo, an education journalist, distin- guished it as one of the most poorly covered edu- cation news stories of that year. Rather than take a deep look at what went wrong and how to prevent srmlar tragedies from happening in the fiture, rost of the national conversation hewed to expected partisan narratives.President Donald 'Trump,how- ever, tasked the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, and Jus- tbe with formaing a Peleral Commission on School Safety (FCSS) to better understand how to avert further sutch tragedies> Over the next nine months I worked as a senior ad' ser for the FCS5 as it held dozens of site vis'tS, formal meetings at the White House, and listening sessions. We met with stakeholders, took testi- mony, and received a huge volume of evidence on issues of school safety and school shooting pre- vention. The FCSS also reviewed 31 prior school

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