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Security on the mind as LAUSD students return to school
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Jan 7, 2013
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Security on the mind as LAUSD students return to school
Los Angeles public school students head back to class today for the first time since the Newtown shootings. In response to that tragedy, Los Angeles Police announced a new plan to ensure security at the district's schools.
Students and police watch teachers, parents and students chanting slogans on a picket line outside Crenshaw High School to protest teacher layoffs planned by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in Los Angeles on May 15, 2009. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled on May 14 a state budget proposal which called for 9 billion USD in cuts, of which as much as 5 billion dollars could come from school spending.
Students and police watch teachers, parents and students chanting slogans on a picket line outside Crenshaw High School to protest teacher layoffs planned by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in Los Angeles on May 15, 2009.
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Los Angeles public school students head back to class today for the first time since the Newtown shootings. In response to that tragedy, Los Angeles Police announced a new plan to ensure security at the district's schools.

Los Angeles public school students head back to class today for the first time since the Newtown shootings. In response to that tragedy, Los Angeles Police announced a new plan to ensure security at the district's schools.

"They'll be checking in with each administrator at least once every day, then going back by the schools and stepping up patrols past all of the schools as well," said Jill Barnes, coordinator of emergency services for the LA Unified School District, on Take Two. "The plan is going to be reevaluated at the end of the week to see how it can be continued."

To see how the new security plan is being received by students and parents, we check in with producer, Mary Plummer at Maple Primary Center, a public school in South Los Angeles that serves 200 students in Kindergarten and first grade.