K-12 Access Control

Few things are more important for school safety and security than controlling access to buildings and grounds.

Every school district faces unique challenges, but they all share a basic responsibility for ensuring the safety and security of the students, the faculty and the staff. To meet this responsibility, many schools systems are including access control within their security strategy.

The balance that must be struck in incorporating access control, as it is in all security issues, is maintaining a an open user-friendly environment while establishing a safe and secure facility at all times; including when school is in session, when limited faculty and staff are present, and when the school facilities are unoccupied.

Don't lose funding: No child left behind law

The "persistently dangerous school" component of the No Child Left Behind law allows parents to transfer students if schools are determined to be "persistently dangerous" based on definitions created by each individual state.

• Each state is creating their own definitions and what is considered "persistently dangerous" in one state may be nowhere near what is considered "persistently dangerous" in another state.
• Being labeled as "persistently dangerous" has serious political and administrative implications for local school administrators.
• The persistently dangerous component of NCLB has no funding to help schools identified as such to improve their school safety programs. These factors could actually contribute to an increased liability for operating less than safe schools.

Laptops stolen from elementary school; thumb drive contain sensitive information

• June 10, 2011 - Confidential information was stolen from students at Ravenel Elementary School in Seneca, South Carolina. Investigators say someone swiped two laptop computers over Memorial Day weekend. A thumb drive on one of those computers contained personal information about students.
• The district sent out a letter to parents whose children may have been affected by the security breach, and they're taking steps to secure the room where the laptop was stolen.

Place the focus on learning

No one knows better than educators that schools have become increasingly vulnerable to crime and violence.
Safety concerns take up too much time and attention. With Millennium Group, schools can put the focus where it belongs:
on learning. Our solutions limit unauthorized access during, and after school hours. Millennium Group is an expert at
assessing your school's vulnerabilities, and recommending appropriate solutions to secure your facilities,
and the students, faculty and staff inside them.

Communities expect schools to be safe havens for children to learn and school employees to work.
School buildings are key centers in each community: on any given school day in our country.
Children of all ages rely on and look to adults for protection from harm.

Few things are more important for school safety and security than controlling access to buildings and grounds.

Every school district faces unique challenges, but they all share a basic responsibility for ensuring the safety and security of the students, the faculty and the staff. To meet this responsibility, many schools systems are including access control within their security strategy.

Don't lose funding: No child left behind law

Laptops stolen from elementary school; thumb drive contain sensitive information

Place the focus on learning

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