Sentences with phrase «as armed school»

The Senate Judiciary Committee is reviewing a proposal to allow retired police officers to work as armed school resource officers.

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.

We caution against seemingly quick and potentially harmful solutions, such as arming school personnel, and urge policy leaders to support the following guidance to enact policies that will equip America's schools to educate and safeguard our children over the long term.»

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.

The stockpiling began in the 1990s, as Congress implemented the military - transfer program to equip police with automatic weapons and armored trucks to better protect themselves against drug gangs and neutralize armed assailants like the two men who carried out the Columbine High School massacre.

Schools across the country have been considering whether or not to arm some educators as a way to protect against mass shootings.

With the rapidly rising price of college tuition, many top students are realizing you don't need to pay an arm and a leg for a quality education, and that state schools are just as great.

Countless Americans believe the «good guy with a gun» myth, but — as we saw with the armed guard in Florida who never went inside the high school — that isn't always the case.

The president made those remarks ahead of a meeting with state governors, referencing reports that an armed sheriff's deputy waited outside for minutes as a gunman opened fire within Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14.

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:

What is less inspiring, however, was inserting into the bill a provision allowing school superintendents and sheriffs to arm school personnel as part of a $ 68 million marshal program.

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.

When I worked as a crime reporter in Broward County, it was normal for a school to go into a Code Yellow lockdown when police were searching for an armed suspect in the surrounding neighborhoods.

I would lean against the side of the tub into Brian's arms for the contractions (he thanked his high school football coach often for teaching him a good three - point stance as he maintained it for almost 2 hours!).

There they were in the illustrations to the antiquated children's biblical histories handed down from class to class in my parochial school; exotic, powerful female creatures with their veils and sandals and the bracelets they wore on their upper arms and ankles as well as on their wrists.

The extreme opposites of the bi-nationalist school, the hard - line protagonists of violence and armed power as the only way to establish and maintain a Zionist settlement in Palestine (or over all of it), held that the Arabs were intransigently opposed to this venture and regarded the immigrating European Jews as racial outsiders, as intruders in their own ancestral living - space, and would harass and murder them and strangle their venture unless they were beaten back by superior fire - power.

A briefing document produced by the Good Food for Our Money campaign calling for legally binding sustainability standards for seafood served in public sector institutions such as government departments, hospitals, schools, prisons and the armed forces.

He is the friend of Tio, and Tio is my employee, and as all of you know» — he waved his arm in a broad gesture — «my employee went to the school, to the college, in the United States.

Allen has a Jamarcus Russel arm and the same accuracy as a high school QB Darnold might not be there and seems to have «bad Eli» type of turnover tendencies and a long wind up Rosen seems like a stuck up punk with injury problems but a talented arm (Jay Cutler) Mayfield — played in OU spread offense which makes every read easy with simple short completions

Rocking this uniform in High School and then getting a million deferrments to the actual military shows a tremendous amount of repsect for our arm forces, its like dressing up as a Ninja Turtle for Holloween and then never taking a shit in a toilet ever again because you do nt want to pollute their environment.

Dealt with arm and shoulder injuries as a baseball player in high school.

From the same high school as Gary, Singleton is exactly what you want, frame-wise, out of an OLB prospect coming out of high school: Long arms, wide shoulders and built like a college upperclassmen.

Common Roads, as the youth programming arm of the Center, serves LGBT youth in Central Pennsylvania through weekly group meetings in Harrisburg and Lancaster, support for area high school and college gay - straight alliances (GSAs) and community education and training on creating a safe space for LGBT youth.

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 shooSchool, President * Donald Trump suggested arming teachers as a way to combat school shooschool shootings.

This one might seem really dull, but I used to spend a fair amount on books and I've basically stopped since the girls came along, I've got a list as long as my arms of things I want to read and since BB is starting school in September, I'll have more time to read.

But to the extent some districts (because of labor costs, size of the free / reduced population, lack of facilities, etc.) can't match those exemplary meals, I'd love to get parents more up in arms over school meal funding as well.

For those unfamiliar with the term, «lunch shaming» refers to practices in the cafeteria that single out children with school meal debt, such as making the child wear a special wrist band, stamping the child's arm or hand, throwing the child's meal away in front of peers, or even making a child do chores, like wiping down tables, in exchange for a meal.

The campus also serves as the location for the Christian Liberty Academy, a day - school founded in 1968, and Christian Liberty Press, our publishing arm, founded in 1985.

As my overwhelmed, heartbroken self was dropping my son off at school one day, a mommy friend saw it in my face and put her arm around me as we were walking our kids into clasAs my overwhelmed, heartbroken self was dropping my son off at school one day, a mommy friend saw it in my face and put her arm around me as we were walking our kids into clasas we were walking our kids into class.

Still, in Albany, the gun debate has mirrored the national discussion on the issue as Republicans have sought measures that would provide more armed school resources officers as well as metal detectors to bolster school safety.

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.

Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.

Republicans on Tuesday emerged from a closed - door conference to not rule out new gun control measures as well as backing funding for school security upgrades, such as metal detectors and armed resource officers.

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.

«Nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.»

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.

Israel also said he was «disgusted» an armed school resource officer did not enter the school as shots rang out and vowed to investigate any other allegation of inaction.

The response to arming teachers as a way to combat school shootings sounds like any other debate about guns.

Alain Kaloyeros, the former president and CEO of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, has filed a complaint against the school's two nonprofit development arms demanding that they cover his legal bills as he fights state and federal corruption charges.

The measures would also make it easier for retired law enforcement officials to become armed guards at schools, known as school resource officers, and to be paid more money.

On Long Island, Miller Place schools last week hired four ex-NYPD officers as armed guards.

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.»

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- As the New York State Sheriffs» Association requests the state legislature to include funding for at least one armed resource officer at every grade school and high school in New York State, they're finding support from New York State Senator - and former Erie County Sheriff...

SANTA FE, Tex. — A nation plagued by a wrenching loop of mass school shootings watched the latest horror play out in this small Southeast Texas town Friday morning, as a young man armed with a shotgun and a.38 revolver smuggled under his coat opened fire on his high school campus, killing 10 people, many of them his fellow students, and wounding 10 more, the authorities said.

Some are now calling for armed guards in schools even as a sheriff's deputy stationed at the school resigned after it was revealed he took cover and did not respond to the shots being fired.

That's more than the nonprofit arm of the public schools raised in four of the last six years, but well below banner years such as 2013, when it raised nearly $ 48 million.

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.

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.