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Arkansas

Arkansas superintendents talk school shootings safety

Sunrise Anchor and Reporter Arkansas superintendents prioritize preventing and reacting to school shootings Updated: 5:13 PM CDT Aug 13, 2023 Hide Transcript Show Transcript What does your safety program look like at your school? You don’t have to get into too many details. But how many Sr Os do you have in your district? And […]

Arkansas

Arkansas special session focuses on tax cuts and school safety bill

Day one of the special legislative session began with a discussion on Senate Bill 2. It would set aside $50 million from the state’s $1.6 billion surplus to create a grant program by which schools across Arkansas could access funds to improve school safety. But what those safety measures could look like was cause for […]

Arkansas

Arkansas governor sets date for special session on tax cuts, school safety grant

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson told 40/29 News the state’s special session will begin Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.Hutchinson expects the session to last three days.The governor will issue an official proclamation Friday that will call for the session. The session will focus on income tax cuts. Arkansas ended the fiscal year with a $1.6 billion budget […]

Arkansas

Arkansas School Safety Commission meet to finalize interim report

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/KARK) – The Arkansas School Safety Commission met for its last meeting before handing over its interim report to Governor Asa Hutchinson. The commission will meet again on Aug. 8, but Tuesday’s meeting is the last before the interim report is due to Hutchinson on Aug. 1. Content partner KARK said, “The […]

Arkansas

Arkansas School Safety Commission emphasizes training, equipment

Members of the Arkansas School Safety Commission started their meeting on Tuesday by reviewing the timeline of events in the Uvalde shooting.A high schooler killed 19 students and two teachers in that shooting. It took law enforcement about one hour and twenty-three minutes to stop him.”These officers initially tried to go in, they were shot […]

Arkansas

Governor Hutchinson announces reinstatement of Arkansas School Safety Commission

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — On June 10, Governor Asa Hutchinson announced that he has issued an executive order to reinstate the Arkansas School Safety Commission. Gov. Hutchinson not considering gun reform in Arkansas The recent violence in Texas was a stark reminder that the work of securing our schools is never done. That is […]

Arkansas

Northwest Arkansas hosts regional school safety summit

THERE IN SPRINGDALE – HE JOINS US NOW. JACOB? HI PAIGE, OBVIOUSLY IT’S A RELEVANT SUBJECT MATTERFT AER THE UVALDE SHOOTING, BUT THE SPRINGDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT SAYS THIS EVENT WAS ACTUALLY PLANNEDN I EARLY MAY BEFORE THE TRAGEDY… WE KNOW 26 SCHOOL DISTRICTS WERE IN VITED TO THE FIRST EVER REGIONAL SCHOOL SAFETY SUMMIT IN […]

Arkansas

Gov. Hutchinson not considering gun reform in Arkansas

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Governor Asa Hutchinson said Thursday he is not considering changing gun legislation in the state this year in the wake of mass shootings in Tulsa and Uvalde. In a “pen and pad” for journalists, Gov. Hutchinson said if he calls a special session, the focus will be on increasing school […]

Alaska

Governors diverge on gun control, school security efforts | National Politics | #alaska | #politics

Many Republican governors are emphasizing a different solution: more security at schools. After the massacre Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, The Associated Press asked governors across the U.S. whether they believed their states have an obligation to reduce mass shootings and violence committed with guns and, if so, how to do that. […]

Mayor

Mayor Eric Adams, schools chancellor call on parents to take role in New York City school safety, check backpacks

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — Mayor Eric Adams along with the NYPD and Schools Chancellor David Banks held a briefing on public safety in the wake of the massacre at an elementary school in Texas. At least 19 children and two teachers are dead after a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on […]