Texas should explore requiring schools to have at least one armed person on each campus, a Republican lawmaker said Tuesday.
to make schools safer, including advising that the Legislature should expand the list of people who are eligible to carry on campus, including by loosening requirements for who is allowed to do so.
Opponents of arming teachers ask how students and teachers would be protected from an accidental discharge or mistaken shooting. They also decry the idea of intentionally putting guns into classrooms.One is a “marshal” program, which is not widely adopted. There are 279 appointed school marshals in the state, according to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement. They are allowed in public school districts, private schools and community colleges.
“With over 9,000 campuses, even if it was authorized and funded, I don’t know that you could get there,” Scott said. The DMN Education Lab deepens the coverage and conversation about urgent education issues critical to the future of North Texas. The DMN Education Lab is a community-funded journalism initiative, with support from Bobby and Lottye Lyle, Communities Foundation of Texas, The Dallas Foundation, Dallas Regional Chamber, Deedie Rose, Garrett and Cecilia Boone, The Meadows Foundation, The Murrell Foundation, Solutions Journalism Network, Southern Methodist University, Sydney Smith Hicks and the University of Texas at Dallas. The Dallas Morning News retains full editorial control of the Education Lab’s journalism..
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