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An Education Week analysis of more than 450 bills related to school safety filed in the days, weeks, and months after the deadliest K - 12 school shooting in U.S. history found that legislators have proposed solutions that include arming teachers, adding guards or police officers, and shoring up the security of school buildings.

While talking to each chamber, Ryan Petty, the father of Alaina Petty, who was gunned down on Valentine's Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, told legislators he is in support of the governor's proposal, which does not include arming teachers.

He had proposed measures that overlap with the Legislature's plan but did not include arming teachers.

And the White House, which shifted Trump's calls for comprehensive gun control toward a proposal that looked a lot more like the National Rifle Association's platform (including arming teachers), has been preoccupied with Cabinet shake - ups and hardline immigration rhetoric.

In an interview with the Daily News, Carranza shared his views on a variety of topics, including arming teachers («ridiculous»), divisive politics («it doesn't help») and immigration raids («over my dead body»).

On the national level, President Trump has floated a few ideas to improve school safety, including arming teachers, an idea New York Governor Andrew Cuomo condemned.

An Education Week analysis of nearly 400 bills found that state lawmakers have proposed a host of solutions, including arming teachers, adding police officers, and improving school buildings.

President Barack Obama's announcement last week of a wide - ranging anti-violence plan in response to the Newtown, Conn., school shootings comes as many districts are adopting new and sometimes dramatic measures — including arming teachers and volunteers — intended to prevent similar tragedies in their own schools.

Asked whether he would veto a bill that included arming teachers, he said, «I'm going to review whatever makes it to my desk.

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Included in the proposals is a contentious, $ 67 million voluntary program to arm school staff, including teachers, trained by law enforcement to carry concealed weapons on campus.

Democrats offered a slew of amendments over eight hours of debate on the bill, including a permanent ban on assault weapons and the elimination of the armed - teacher program.

Congress hasn't taken action on gun control, and President Trump, who initially supported a higher age limit for purchasing assault rifles, later backed off, putting forward a plan that included a proposal to arm teachers instead.

Last month, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed a gun control bill that included a provision to arm some trained school employees — but not full - time teachers.

The Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by a gunman armed with an AR - 15 style assault rifle has reignited national debate over gun laws and school safety, including proposals by President Donald Trump and others to designate more people — including trained teachers — to carry arms on school grounds.

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Thursday, we talked with her about that transition and about other issues facing the state including prisons, Medicaid, ethics reform, and arming teachers.

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The Laboratory's education arm also includes a graduate school and programs for undergraduates as well as middle and high school students and teachers.

The new bill includes funding for mental - health programs and arming teachers.

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Teachers there are now prohibited from all forms of corporal punishment, including ordering students to do push - ups, run, hold their arms straight above their heads, and walk in a squatting position called a «ducks» walk,» said Chung Young - chul, a supervisor...

Armed with research - based and highly - interactive strategies for engaging all students, including English language learners, IDRA modeled lessons and debriefed with teachers on what they observed.

As a parent, it concerns me that you have required states to expand charter schools, increase standardized testing overall, tie teacher jobs to test scores, and turn around schools by firing half or more of the staff, when the overwhelming body of evidence — including that of the research arms of the federal government — is clear that these strategies do not improve academics overall and can have serious negative effects on children and their education.

A well - timed in - service day that may include a relevant or timely workshop can be just the impetus teachers need to consider a new approach to their professional practice, or the perfect shot in the arm for a faculty out of energy and ideas.

While I applaud the multi-pronged approach including raising the age for gun purchases to 21, implementing a mandatory 3 day waiting period, better background checks, increased funding for mental health services, adding more SROs to campuses, et cetera, I firmly do not believe that arming teachers in schools should be part of the solution.

Unfortunately, responses to school shootings include proposals like President Donald Trump's to arm 20 percent of teachers.

Our state's elected officials have approved a bill that provides funding to arm school staff, including teachers, coaches, librarians and counselors, while dramatically increasing funding for police and high level surveillance security in schools.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest discusses top education issues including school safety & arming teachers, digital learning, school choice and state of public education.

In a second study (Amaral et al., 2002), while most of the science instruction was in English (even in the bilingual arm of the study), teachers had the freedom to use Spanish for facilitation of instruction, including the use of support materials written in Spanish.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest (pictured above, right) discusses top education issues including school safety & arming teachers, digital learning, school choice and state of public education.

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Senate Bill 7026, dubbed the «Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act,» would toughen gun control in several ways — but also includes a controversial provision that would allow some teachers to be armed.

The comments tie into Trump's push to arm some educators, including teachers, to deter school shootings.

Trump has also voiced support for increased school security, including the possibility of arming some teachers.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- The superintendent for the district that includes the Florida high school where 17 people were shot last week said arming teachers is not the solution to school shootings, after President Donald Trump suggested that schools give staff firearms to improve safety.

In the wake of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, which occurred about 275 miles south of Crystal River Middle School, where Volitich teaches, she has defended the NRA, expressed support for the idea of arming teachers, including herself, to protect students and has joined in on the attacks on the shooting survivors who have called for gun control.

The Legislature is also considering numerous general school security measures that were prompted by the shooting, including paying for more campus police officers and mental health services, raising the age of buying a rifle to 21 and allowing districts to arm teachers and other staff.

Some of the aspects of the bill that many do not support include the fact that there is no ban on assault - style weapons and the bill includes a program that would give districts the ability to opt in or out of allowing teachers to be armed at schools.

They came up with 22 assumptions that people, including public officials, make to support the potential effectiveness of armed teachers.

State Sen. Oscar Braynon, D - Miami Gardens, said that teachers would now have to be included in the talk that he and other African - American fathers have to give their kids in addressing how to act around armed authority figures.

The Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has reignited national debate over gun laws and school safety, including proposals by President Donald Trump and others to designate more people — including trained teachers — to carry arms on school grounds.

Donnelly said that while the Broward Workshop didn't include the issue of arming some teachers in its recent «position» paper on school safety, his personal opinion is that arming teachers is «a bad idea.»

Taking a «big picture» approach to this critical topic, this book - and - CD set illuminates the diverse influences on challenging behavior — including temperament, preferences, home life, and peer relationships — and arms teachers with the tools they need to create powerful solutions.

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