D.C.-area schools step up security in wake of Texas school shooting
In the wake of the killings at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex., D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee said the system would “continue to work closely” with the D.C. police and other city agencies on school security and on the well-being of school communities.He said this would include a layered safety and security program with school security guards and with the D.C. police’s specially trained school resource officers.
The school system said it already has one of the “most advanced school security systems in the nation” but would continue assessing it to “ensure the safest” environment possible.
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