Getting your player ready...
By Debbie Kelley, The Gazette
On Wednesday, the fourth anniversary of the shooting that killed 20 children and six employees at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Hanover School District 28’s board will decide whether to arm teachers and other staff at school.
Concerns about mass shootings are only part of what’s fueling the proposal to allow employees to carry concealed handguns.
“It’s more what’s coming into the neighborhoods,” board member Michael Lawson said at the November board meeting.
Large marijuana cultivation operators have set up shop within a few miles of schools on the rural eastern plains of El Paso County, he said.
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