But on Friday, the panel said it also would study reusing a Newtown intermediate school or moving Sandy Hook Elementary to a former mental hospital campus that now includes a municipal town center and a youth academy.

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School-Based Partnership grants in the 1990s paid police agencies to send officers into schools in order to reduce school-related crimes such as drug dealing or alcohol use on campus.

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Students are being encouraged to carry "only those items necessary for your school or work" and will have to show an identification card to enter campus facilities.

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Students are being encouraged to carry "only those items necessary for your school or work" and will have to show an ID card to enter campus facilities.

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The Defense Department has declined to sign Yale's non-discrimination policy, so the school's career development office does not help military recruiters set up interviews on or off campus.

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The school was on lockdown Tuesday afternoon while authorities combed the campus to ensure no other injured people or attackers were there, Harris County sheriff's spokesman Alan Bernstein said.

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Meanwhile, university officials in California voted earlier this month to overhaul their current admissions system, which guarantees a student a place at a UC campus if he ranks in the top 4% of his high-school class or in the top 12.5% of the graduating class statewide.

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At issue is whether school administrators are constitutionally barred from conducting searches of students investigated for possessing or dealing drugs that are banned on campus.

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