Dr. Amy Klinger on K5 NBC news

ESSN data in Newsweek

In the week after, the Educator's School Safety Network found threats were being made on an average of 50 a day, according to an NPR report.  

ESSN research in TIME magazine

Educator’s School Safety Network has tracked an average of 73 threats and other incidents each day at schools across the country in the three weeks after a gunman killed 17 students and educators. The Educator’s Safety Network is a nonprofit group focused on safety training for teachers and staff who work in schools.

Amanda Klinger quoted in Blount Co. Daily times

“Most of our schools will not have a school shooting,” Klinger said. “Our schools now are safer than when I was in high school” 15 years ago.

However, she said, educators make thousands of decisions every day and must be trained to consider safety in every thing they do so they are prepared to handle any type of crisis.

She noted one school system that includes five minutes of safety discussion at every staff meeting.

“School safety is an education issue that happens to involve safety,” Klinger said, not a law enforcement issue that happens to occur in a school.

Dr. Amy Klinger quoted in the Washington Post

“The mentality has shifted in a very short period of time from kids being kids to this is very serious stuff,” she said. She expects consequences of post-Parkland threats to be harsher than before.

“They almost have to be,” she said. “Do we want to do this for the rest of the school year? Do we want to have this constant chaos and fear, and people being upset? How much learning is going on?”

Amanda Klinger quoted by KPIC

"You have sort of response fatigue," says the organization's Amanda Klinger, "so I might be very vigilant and I might be doing an assessment of, is this a substantive threat? What do we need to do? Do we need to search the building? By the time it's the fifth time, how closely are we really searching?"

Dr. Amy Klinger and Amanda Klinger quoted in Kansas City star

"We know that after an event an uptick in threats is expected but it's not expected at this level and this intensity and that it would continue for this long." said Amy Klinger, director of programs for the safety network.

ESSN data in the Portland Press-Herald

Amanda Klinger, director of operations at the Educator’s School Safety Network, said copycat behavior is common after incidents of violence, even after those less serious than the attack in Parkland. Widespread social media use and sustained media attention on the attack could also be contributing factors to the spike, she said.

ESSN data in the tri-city herald

Since the Florida shooting, the Educator’s School Safety Network reports that nationally there have been on average 71 threats and incidents reported each day. Those 638 reports equal nearly two-thirds the number of threats the organization found from September to December.

ESSN data in the NY daily news

The group found 638 threats were made after the Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

The threats prompted 33 school closings and 15 lockdowns, according to a USA Today review of the incidents.

Amanda Klinger on KTVU

Amanda Klinger on WGN

Dr. Amy Klinger in Emergency Management Magazine

 “The problem is we’ve spent a lot of time and energy on stuff — access control systems, and metal detectors, and visitor sign-ins and all this — but have not spent equal time and money on training people, and education is a people business.”

Dr. Amy Klinger in the Independent (UK)

School threats since the Florida shooting include dozens on social media, about 10 incidents where a gun was brought to school and 22 bomb threats, said Amy Klinger, director of programmes for the Ohio-based Educators School Safety Network. 

Dr. Amy Klinger in the LA Times

Amy Klinger, co-founder of the Ohio-based Educator's School Safety Network, said that rather than arming them, schools should train teams of educators to assess threats. The calls by Trump and others for guns in schools have "really taken the focus off things that are more effective," she said. "We need to do things that work, not that feel good."

Klinger said more guns on campus can lead to more accidental shootings, including two earlier this month in Minnesota and Florida, and it's unreasonable to expect even armed staff on large campuses to be able to stop a mass shooter.

"We need to train our teachers how to identify these people. People don't want to hear that — they want a quick fix," she said.

Dr. Amy Klinger in the Des Moines Register

"There’s always a copycat echo situation, but this is significantly higher than what you would expect," Klinger said.

Iowa isn't alone in the increase of school threats. Across the United States, since Feb. 15, at least 600 threats and incidents have occurred, according to Educator's Safety School Network. The organization tallies an "incident" when a student actually brings a weapon to school or breaks into a building.

ESSN data in the Calgary Sun

School threats on the rise nationwide since the Florida shooting include dozens on social media, about 10 incidents where a gun was brought to school and 22 bomb threats, said Amy Klinger, director of programs for the Ohio-based Educators School Safety Network.

Amanda Klinger, Esq. quote on Wisconsin public radio

The Educator’s School Safety Network is a nonprofit that provides safety training for schools and tracks these threats nationally. Officials there report an increase in school threats nationwide.

The organization reports 33 school-based violent incidents and threats in Wisconsin during the entire fall 2017. In the five days after the Parkland shooting, they recorded nine threats.

Amanda Klinger is one of the authors of the report. She said the number of threats they have recorded is likely an under-reporting of what is known to exist. 

Amanda Klinger, Esq. quoted in the Houston Chronicle

The Educator’s School Safety Network, an advocacy group, has tracked more than 70 threats and incidents per day at U.S. schools after Parkland, including bomb and gun threats. Typically, that organization says, the figure is about 10. Most of the threats were delivered by social media.

Amanda Klinger, the network's director of operations, said the vast majority of those threats impacted high schools.

"Higher education has been very, very low," she said.

Amanda Klinger, Esq. quoted by The News & Observer

School shootings commonly lead to copycat threats, said Amanda Klinger, director of operations for the Educator’s School Safety Network, an Ohio-based group that tracks school threats. The number of school threats has jumped from an average of 10 a school day nationally to more than 50 a day since the Florida shooting, Klinger said, adding that the actual number of threats is likely much higher.