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Each Year, the SCI Foundation provides hands on outdoor educational experiences to teacher from around the country...

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Much like the ongoing debate in the United States, some agree that arming teachers is a good line of defense for protecting students, while others disagree.

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A Colorado gun club aims to certify as many as 450 educators and administrators to become concealed carry permit holders.

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Forty teachers have already gone through the course and several more signed up over the weekend. But not everyone agrees that allowing teachers to be armed is such a good idea.

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The legal system will have to determine whether or not a Georgia father is within his legal rights to carry a gun while at his daughter's school. He says yes, but the principal says no.

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Teachers and other staff members from several school districts across Missouri started training this week in order to become certified to carry concealed handguns on campus once school commences this fall.

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The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has just announced their adoption of bulletproof whiteboards from Hardwire LLC. The professors will all have sheilds at their disposal. But the whiteboards are just the first step in what's needed.

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Armed with rules and guidelines, schools have been given a safety pamphlet to combat an “active shooter” scenario. In light of the tragic Sandy Hook school shooting, the Obama administration released a 67-page detailed report outlining how schoolteachers should react in the event of “an active shooter situation.” The U.S. Department of Education’s “live-shooter” section […]

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In a not so controversial move, one Ohio school district has approved a new policy, effective the start of the 2013-2014 school year, which will allowed designated employees to carry firearms onto school grounds. And they did so after parents in the district urged the school board to allow it.

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New York City's teachers' pension fund dumped all its stocks relating to the gun industry on Feb. 15. The $46.6 billion fund is the nation's largest pension fund to divest from the industry since the Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in December.

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As a teacher, a gun writer, and a victim of gun violence, I'm in tune with the arguments for and against arming teachers. While many people engage in polarizing rhetoric, I represent a middle ground. There is something that could be done, immediately, and it would cost nothing.

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