CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- Several school districts in the area are headed back to class Monday.

Dozens of districts are well into the swing of things by now – but students and teachers in the last round of schools to head back before labor day are savoring the final weekend of summer. That includes the more than 140,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students.

It's common for districts to implement new safety protocols each summer. For example, CMS is now using a new emergency response and communication platform. It was developed by the nonprofit I Love U Guys, and is used by school districts across the country to create a predictable and unified response to any school-based incident.

District officials reported a decrease last year in school-related crime overall, citing a 70 percent

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