On the morning of September 4, a student rode the bus to his Georgia school with a rifle and knife hidden in his backpack, investigators said.

When Apalachee High School students head back to the classroom, they will be eased back into their daily routine after a deadly shooting shook both the school and the Barrow County community to its core.

Georgia’s state school superintendent says he wants the state to spend more money to guarantee security officers and wearable panic alert buttons after a school shooting killed four at Apalachee High School outside Atlanta.