police in schools

Denton ISD has hired all the security officers required under state law, which includes stipulations that one of them must be armed.

HB 3 requires public and charter campuses to have armed security, although funding gaps and police shortages are challenges.

The school board approved a plan that will place at least two peace officers at the district’s high school and at least one officer at middle and elementary schools. The Eanes ISD superintendent said the district would rather have trained police on campuses than armed teachers or other school staff.

Written in response to the deadly Uvalde shooting at Robb Elementary School in 2022 that killed 19 students and 2 teachers, House Bill 3 would require armed security in every Texas school. But critics say the last-minute measure won't make kids any safer.

Officials have called for more armed officers on campuses in the wake of the Uvalde shooting. Experts and some parents, though, say more law enforcement on campus doesn’t necessarily make schools safer.

When Marsha Madrigal was in middle school, she thought it was normal to see her classmates in handcuffs.But she knows now that not all schools have a…