Hilary Brueck
LOS ANGELES, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Some teachers in the U.S. state of Colorado will be allowed to carry guns in school after a three-day training in aims of protecting students and school staff from potential gun violence. Seventeen teachers and administrators from five mostly rural counties ...
But Texas state laws regulating armed staff are sparing, allowing school districts to decide for themselves the type, and amount, of training school staff need to carry guns on campus. "I feel like as educators and coaches, we have an obligation to protect … other parents' kids while they...
DENVER, the United States, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- School teachers in Hanover, Colorado will be allowed to start carrying guns in classrooms as early as next fall thanks to a new resolution, officials said Monday. "In light of recent events nationally," the resolution read, referring to mass ...
Villalba: Allow teachers to carry concealed gunsThe article informs that politician of Dallas, Texas Jason Villalba will file a legislation so that public school teachers can carry concealed weapons while they ...
"I don't think teachers should be carrying guns. They are supposed to be models for our students. What kind of message does that send that your teacher, your role model is armed," said BTU president Sharon Glickman. Members of the Dade County school board also shot down the bil...
Alocal reportfrom The Tennessean added, “Armed teachers, who will be required to undergo training that some opponents have argued is not intensive enough, will be allowed to carry handguns in their classrooms and in most campus situations without informing parents and most of their...
Louisiana Teachers Will Be Allowed to Conceal and Carry if Proposed Bill Passes State Representative Lauren Ventrella has filedHB21, a bill that proposes arming certified teachers and school administrators on campus in Louisiana. This initiative comes after the setback ofHB37in June 2022, which...
According to theFort Worth Star-Telegram, there is at least one school district in Texas and in the entire country that allows teachers to carry concealed weapons, the Harrold school district, that has allowed its employees to carry guns since 2008. The district's superintendent, David Thweatt,...
House Democrats tried more than a dozen different ways to amend the bill. All of them failed. One of the amendments would have allowed parents to know if their child’s teacher is carrying a weapon. “This bill is insane,” Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, said. “For God's s...