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Schools may be on break, but the effort to make progress on keeping students safe is not.

The Secure Schools Roundtable met on Capitol Hill today, sponsored in part by the two-year-old bipartisan .聽Key groups 鈥撀爄ncluding educators and students, lawmakers and law enforcement 鈥� were invited to in K-12 schools.

Student activists are also working to keep the topic in the public eye. Teens from Parkland, Fla. 鈥撀爓here Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was the site of a mass shooting in February 鈥撀燼nd other students are on that kicked off on June 15 in Chicago and was headed for Bismarck, N.D., today. A separate is also happening in Florida, where yesterday officials in Broward County, which includes Parkland, to allow armed, non-law-enforcement guards in schools that don鈥檛 already have school resource officers.聽

One of the goals of the tours is to register more young people to vote. The students see that as a way to move forward on solutions to gun violence. We are keeping an eye on the momentum of youth activism, which is also addressed in several of our stories today. The movement is in a position to influence not only school safety, but also, it seems, elections.

Now to today's five stories.聽