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Podcast: Speaking of Education Podcast
Episode: Safe Schools for Alex with Guest Max Schachter
Description: This episode features Max Schachter whose son Alex was killed during the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, FL. Since that tragic day, Max has created a non-profit organization, Safe Schools for Alex and has become a tireless advocate for laws, policies and practices that can make schools safer for all children. During the interview, Max stressed two points. (1) It is vitally important for schools to comply with laws requiring the reporting incidents of violence and other violations of codes of conduct to their respective state board of education. Without such data, districts tacitly create an environment that condones violence. (2) Districts (and...