The last mass shooting at a Texas school happened four years and six days ago, when 10 students were killed at Santa Fe High School, near Houston.
A few weeks later, on a trip to Dallas, Gov. Greg Abbott unveiled a 40-page list of recommendations on how to keep schools safer.
The recommendations, @lmcgaughy and I wrote, included more law enforcement at schools, hardening campuses, growing the school marshal program and expanding programs which provide mental health evaluations that identify students at risk of harming others.
Trustees now going to hear about the district's first draft for potentially reopening campuses in the fall.
The TEA hasn't distributed guidance yet, but the district felt it had to move forward, chief of school leadership Stephanie Elizalde said.
For example, Elizalde said, if the district wanted to do masks for everyone, that's an order of 153,000 kids and 23,000 employees.
“That order isn’t something we can up on Aug. 1 and expect it to arrive in the first day of school.”
