DALLAS — Lawmakers should expand the school marshal program, revisit truancy reforms and allocate more money to campus safety, according to a Senate report on how to make Texas schools safer after the massacre in Uvalde.
The state should also funnel more resources to promoting an anonymous threat reporting tool that few districts use, the special Senate committee also suggested.
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