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Bush Wants Better Security in US Schools
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president says Americans have seen sad, shocking violence in schools
across the country U.S. President George Bush wants better security
for American schoolchildren, following a series of school shootings in
the past month.







George Bush speaks about 'No Child Left Behind' education program at
Woodbridge Elementary and Middle CampusPresident Bush says Americans
have seen sad and shocking violence in schools across the country. So,
next week, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Education
Secretary Margaret Spellings with meet with state and local government
officials to try to improve school security.

"We are going to bring together teachers and parents and
administrators and law enforcement officials and other experts to
discuss ways to help our schools protect the children," the president
said. "See, it is paramount that the federal government work with the
state government and local governments to make it clear that our
schools are places of learning, not places where there be violence."

Speaking at an elementary school in the nation's capital, President
Bush said the planned conference is part of an important discussion
about the future of American education.

It follows a series of recent attacks that has renewed concerns about
school safety.

A gunman held 10 girls hostage in a rural, one-room schoolhouse in the
eastern state of Pennsylvania Monday, shooting them all and killing
five before killing himself.

A teenager in the midwest state of Wisconsin last week brought two
guns to school and killed his principal.

Late last month, a gunman in the western state of Colorado held six
teenage girls hostage, and sexually assaulted them before killing one.
Autopsy reports show that gunman shot himself and was shot by police
who stormed the school.

Unlike earlier classroom violence, the Pennsylvania and Colorado
shootings involved adults with no apparent connection to the schools.


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