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President Donald Trump tweeted that arming teachers as a deterrent against such often deadly violence should be «Up to States.»
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As for arming teachers as the President indicated support for earlier Wednesday, Rubio said he did not favor that, both as a father and as a matter of practicality.
During a «listening session» with parents and students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, President * Donald Trump suggested arming teachers as a way to combat school shootings.
A tweet sent by Trump in 2016 in which he denied wanting guns «brought into the school classroom» has resurfaced after a White House conversation about arming teachers as a way of stopping school shootings.
The response to arming teachers as a way to combat school shootings sounds like any other debate about guns.
In the wake of the tragic school shooting in which 17 children were murdered in Parkland, Florida, President Trump suggested arming teachers as a way to stop future massacres.
«If [Gov. Scott] REALLY didn't want to arm teachers as he promised, why didn't he VETO the $ 67M in SB 7026 that funded the Guardian Plan?»
In the days after the shooting, DeVos supported a proposal by President Trump and others to arm teachers as a way to deter school shootings.
President Donald Trump appeared Saturday to begin refining his proposals for combating school violence, tweeting that arming teachers as a deterrent against such often deadly violence — an idea he championed in recent days — is «Up to States.»
Haab said he wanted to address the issue of arming teachers as a way to prevent and deter school shootings.
President Donald Trump on Thursday doubled down on his idea of arming some teachers as a deterrent for school shootings and praised the top leadership of the National Rifle Association as «Great American Patriots.»
-- President pushes arming teachers: President Donald Trump on Thursday doubled down on his idea of arming some teachers as a deterrent for school shootings and praised the top leadership of the National Rifle Association as «Great American Patriots.»
Not exact matches
In the wake of the mass shooting last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, we have heard a familiar refrain from those steadfastly opposing any kind of gun reform: To stop armed students, put armed guards — or teachers «adept at firearms,» as President Trump proposed — in schools.
As Vox's German Lopez explains, there's no good research that supports this theory, particularly when it comes to arming teachers or others in schools:
The president's comments about the deputy come as he's promoted the idea of training and arming teachers to defend against shooters, a controversial proposal to which prominent Democrats and Republicans have voiced opposition.
The mother of Scott Beigel, a teacher who was killed in the shooting, to NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch: «Why are my son's unalienable rights not protected as fiercely as the right to bear arms?»
As Parkland gun control activists and their surrogates mock the idea of arming teachers, march for gun bans in D.C., and call for new gun controls via Twitter, they risk driving Americans toward the Second Amendment instead of away from it.
Students in Erie, Pennsylvania, need no longer worry about school shooters, as their teachers will now be armed.
Trump has gone so far as to suggest incentivizing arming teachers, giving those who carry a gun to school bonuses.
Arming teachers or bolstering mental health programs, as Trump has suggested, isn't going to fix this problem.
Cuomo trained his crosshairs on seven New York Republican House members over the gun issue as Trump rolled out a school - safety plan long on NRA ideas like arming teachers and short on Democratic - backed proposals like universal background checks.
The president also intensified his calls for arming highly trained teachers as part of an effort to fortify schools against shooting massacres like the one that occurred in Parkland, even as he denounced active shooter drills that try to prepare students to survive a rampage.
Senator Todd Kaminksy, a Democrat from Long Island, says allowing teachers to be armed, as President Trump is proposing, would be «misguided».
Most of the proposals being put forth by Trump and the NRA, such as arming school teachers, are meant only to deflect attention from the real problem: we allow dangerous people to own guns.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo mocked the idea of arming teachers in schools on Thursday, calling the proposal raised by President Donald Trump and others as «bizarre» and «ludicrous.»
The NASUWT is campaigning vigorously for the teacher's contract to be amended in line with those of the police, armed forces and prison service to prevent BNP members from working as teachers.
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New York State United Teachers, as usual one of the most politically active labor organizations, had already given the largest legal donations to the Senate Democrats» campaign arm, and to many other Democratic campaigns.
WAMC's political observer Dr. Alan Chartock discusses President Trump's calls for arming trained teachers as part of an effort to fortify schools against shootings, comments by the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre and new unsealed charges against President Trump's former campaign chair Paul Manafort.
«As far as arming every teacher... it's not a good idea,» O'Neill said at a press conferencAs far as arming every teacher... it's not a good idea,» O'Neill said at a press conferencas arming every teacher... it's not a good idea,» O'Neill said at a press conference.
The law, known as the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, tightens gun control in several ways, and also allows some teachers to be armed.
In the wake of the deadly shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the 18th school shooting to occur in the U.S. in 2018, many have attempted to focus the debate on the possibility of arming school teachers and other school employees as a way of deterring and preventing future school shootings.
«We should not expect teachers or other members of school staff to also serve as armed guards,» said Nicole Lesser, volunteer co-leader with the New York chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
The issue is at something of an impasse: Republican - backed efforts to provide armed personnel in schools has been staunchly opposed by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie as is the New York State United Teachers union.
While the response from the gun lobby has been remarkably similar — blaming the massacre on mental - health issues, advocating for policemen or armed teachers in schools as well as the need for «good guys with guns» — they have a new kind of adversary.
He also said he «isn't opposed» to the idea of arming a school teacher as long as they're properly trained and licensed.
«While by 11 points Republicans support allowing teachers to be armed, Democrats, independents and downstaters overwhelmingly oppose it, as do a majority of upstaters and a narrow majority of gun owners,» Greenberg said.
«While by 11 points Republicans support allowing teachers to be armed, Democrats, independents and downstaters overwhelmingly oppose it, as do a majority of upstaters and a narrow majority of gun owners.»
As teachers made their way into Tecumseh Elementary School this morning, Caitlin Seamans was juggling an infant in one arm and an excited 2 - year - old son on the other.
Newly - released numbers from Siena Research Institute suggest a wide majority of New York State residents support Gov. Andrew Cuomo's gun control legislation known as the SAFE Act and oppose the idea of arming teachers.
Eighty six percent of respondents who identified themselves as Democrats expressed opposition to arming teachers while 53 percent of those identifying themselves as Republicans supported the idea.
They were asked what types of guns they owned; reasons for ownership (protection, recreation, as collector's items); their attitudes on gun policies, such as bans, arming teachers and violence against the government; and the sources of violence, ranging from God's absence in public schools to media violence to insufficient mental health screening and background checks.
Maybe as we train new biology teachers — make sure that we give them what they really need to know — new teachers can arm themselves with the evidence that's out there.
The Laboratory's education arm also includes a graduate school and programs for undergraduates as well as middle and high school students and teachers.
That workshop led me to teachers such as Kathryn Budig and Dice lida - Klein, and their precise intuitions and playful attitudes allowed me to work on regaining some strength in my right arm and shoulder in the safety of my own home.
In a time when students come to school armed, and sometimes use their weapons on teachers, and when both teachers and students see school as a dangerous place, how can trust have a role?
As a computer teacher once said to me after helping me solve a problem: «You should be able to do this (pretends to feed herself with an invisible spoon), but sometimes you have to do this (wraps her arm around her head, still bringing the invisible spoon to her mouth, but going the long way around.)
What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?
As with the armed forces (or even higher education), the answer, these leaders propose, is to supply sufficient teachers by supplementing a small, permanent...
The final report on the Early Reading First program, conducted by outside researchers under contract to the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, found the program has had the most significant effect in improving classroom activities and materials, as well as teacher practices related to literacy development.