New Year, New Fear: Students Return to Schools with Beefed-Up Security Post-Uvalde [the74million.org]
By Mark Keierleber, Photograph: Joshua Bay/The 74; Kel-Tec/iStock, The 74, September 12, 2022 As districts nationwide bolster police in schools, a Florida sheriff plans to equip campus cops with collapsible rifles strapped to their chests. As children in Brevard County, Florida, shopped for notebooks and pencils for the upcoming school year, Sheriff Wayne Ivey geared up to — as he called it — “win the battle.” Just two days before students returned to classes at the coastal district east of...