Sentences with phrase «oppose arming school»

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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.

Robert W. Runcie, the superintendent of Broward County Public Schools, said in an interview that he opposed arming teachers.

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.

In the Assembly, Democratic Speaker Carl Heastie has said he would oppose bringing armed personnel into schools, but did not rule out additional safety measures.

Also in the poll: An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers support the SAFE Act along with proposed new gun control measures in the state, though they oppose the idea of arming school teachers.

Republican state lawmakers have called for more funding to add armed office in schools, an idea Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said in a statement he opposes.

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.

Republicans countered with calls to strengthen school safety through funding for armed resource officers, a move opposed by Democrats in the Assembly.

He also said he «isn't opposed» to the idea of arming a school teacher as long as they're properly trained and licensed.

March 2, 2018 • The measures aimed at preventing more school shootings is facing significant opposition — not just from the NRA — but also from Democrats, who oppose a proposal to arm teachers.

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Some believe that school teachers or security should be armed with weapons, while others oppose this and strongly support stricter gun laws.

Many law enforcement agencies across the country have firmly opposed the proposal to arm school personnel, emphasizing that police and first responders will not be able to distinguish between the attacker and armed school staff when attempting to secure the premises.

I'm encouraged that the strongest sentiments oppose arming teachers and principals and that, given a choice, more respondents prefer mental health services over armed guards,» Doris Terry Williams, executive director of The Rural School and Community Trust, 45th annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools.

Building One America (or its local arm, «Building One New Jersey») is adamantly opposed to public charter schools.

According to several polls conducted since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, both a majority of Americans in general and teachers specifically oppose arming teachers and school offiSchool shooting, both a majority of Americans in general and teachers specifically oppose arming teachers and school offischool officials.

Nearly half, 47 percent, strongly opposed to arming elementary teachers and administrators and 43 percent opposed to arming middle and high school teachers and administrators.

Like law schools, undergraduate tuition has risen dramatically thanks to the «arms race» (in the form of new buildings and amenities having nothing to do with enhancing «value» to the students» education (as opposed to comfort), bloated administrative fiefdoms, an emphasis on faculty «scholarship» (see our Chief Justice's candidly caustic views on that one) and student «rebates.»

Many students say they oppose arming teachers in school, and some staged a «die - in» at the state capitol during this final week of the legislative session.