The report contains usable research and successful practices for establishing a safe school environment. It highlights exemplary efforts and programs at local, State, and national levels. It also provides methods for identifying and assessing school safety needs and developing positive responses to those needs. Individual chapters are devoted to: Establishing a Safe Environment; Prevention Strategies; Crisis Management and Intervention Strategies; Roots of Violence: Risk Factors; and National, State. and Local School Safety Initiatives and Issues. There is greater recognition today of the many factors that threaten school safety (e.g., fighting, disruptive behavior, weapons, harassment, and vandalism) and contribute to problems and the ways that school policies and structures (discipline procedures, intervention programs, prevention efforts, dress codes) can have a positive or negative impact on students and the school. The report provides contact information so interested parties can obtain further information on successful school violence reduction programs. Tables, appendixes, references