Safe Zones in the News

• Safe Zones Comments on the Passing of Elijiah Lopes : March 12, 2011
• Anti-Bullying Program Looks to Follow Kids Home : June 1, 2010
• Mayor Lang Recognizes Safe Zones for their Efforts to Eliminate Bullying in New Bedford : March 25, 2010
• Bill would require school workers to report all bullying incidents : November 19, 2009
• City man appeals to community to end school violence : May 12, 2007

Bullying in the News

Local News

• The state Education Department released a model antibullying plan yesterday to help local schools develop their own policies to protect students from being picked on. : December 9, 2011
• Following the tragedy of the 1999 Columbine shootings, Georgia became the first state in the nation to enact anti-bullying laws. Since then, nearly 150 anti-bullying bills [...] :
• The cruelty of teens to each other online is laid out even as campaigns like 'It Gets Better' ratchet up the offensive against cyber-bullying. :
• Brave, bighearted Bridgewater boys and girls are rising up and rallying against a vicious bullying culture that... : June 9, 2011
• One-fourth of Massachusetts middle-schoolers and 16 percent of high school students report enduring bullying at school, according to a federal report released yesterday that puts the state at the center of the national discussion over the issue. : April 23, 2011

National News

• Lady Gaga takes anti-bullying campaign to White House : December 7, 2011
• Mixed martial arts fighters deliver tough anti-bullying message to students : December 6, 2011
• Bullying blamed in 10-year-old girl’s suicide : November 15, 2011
• 10-Year-Old Suicide Victim’s Parents Blame Elementary School Bullying : November 14, 2011
• Telling research on bullying : May 4, 2011