School districts worry they won’t have the money or personnel to comply with the new law.
“When it rains, it pours, only the sad thing is, we have umbrellas and nobody’s allowing us to use those umbrellas,” Dallas ISD Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde said. “I can’t believe that all of this is pouring on the children of public schools.”
“The funding accompanying the armed guard mandate appears to be significantly less than the current actual cost of providing a trained peace officer in each school,” Richardson ISD Superintendent Tabitha Branum said in a statement. “Our district adopted a deficit operating budget in 2022-23 and anticipates doing so again for 2023-24 in order to provide a pay increase for teachers and staff.”The new $15,000 per campus stipend would generate about $3.4 million for Dallas ISD.
through a “marshal” program and a “guardian” program. Chosen teachers and other campus personnel can go through training and bring weapons on campus, but districts don’t disclose who is armed.More than 370 armed officers responded to Robb Elementary on the day a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers. Four years earlier, during the Parkland, Fla., school massacre, an armed school resource officer never went inside the high school or engaged the gunman.
“The bottom line is, more guns in schools do not protect us from targeted school violence. It just makes us less safe,” said Paige Duggins-Clay, of the Intercultural Development Research Association. The education agency must also develop standards for how parents should be notified about violence that has occurred or is being investigated on campuses.
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