Also among the proposals is a zero-tolerance policy on harassment and bullying.
Safe schools are about more than physical safety.
The task force's recommendations, which will not be made public until Monday's presentation, are expected to include provisions increasing the number of security guards districtwide, restricting access to schools and installing security cameras on a trial basis. Linda Mauser, whose son, Daniel, was killed at Columbine, is the lone member of the group to have lost a child in the shootings. After walking out of two previous meetings, declaring that the task force was moving too slow, she returned to the meeting Wednesday. Ann Kechter, who lost her son, Matthew, at Columbine, attended the meeting as an observer. Students entering the seventh and ninth grades this fall will come to school a day earlier than other students, Monseu said.