Dive Summary:
- Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has ordered Virginia Tech to pay a fine exceeding $27,500 for its allegedly slow response time to alert students on the day of the 2007 shootings.
- Although the fine had been overturned, Secretary Duncan re-imposed the fine, arguing that "the [university] should have resolved any doubts it had regarding the timing of the warning by issuing the warning before 9:26 a.m."
- Virginia Tech disagrees with the claim that a campus safety law was violated and is likely to appeal the case in federal court.
From the article:
Federal authorities have reinstated a finding that Virginia Tech violated a law requiring colleges to issue timely warnings of threats to students and staff when the university responded to the 2007 massacre on the Blacksburg campus. ...
