The plan, expected to start some time in spring 2022, will entail using metal-detection wands to screen bookbags and purses of various classrooms on a random basis.
The latest of several security upgrades since the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., in 2018, the South Florida school district will randomly screen bookbags and purses with metal-detection wands starting this spring.
School Board members on Tuesday discussed ways to better vet graduation speech after a salutatorian at Western High in Davie made comments in June about the Middle East that some thought were anti-Semitic.
Students will be expected to attend school for a full day on Dec. 14 to Dec. 17 when they take final exams. In past years, students took two exams in the morning and usually left by lunchtime.
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