Top Trump Education Official: Schools Can Use Federal Money to Arm Educators

Education Week: Schools that want to arm teachers are allowed to use federal funding under the Every Student Succeeds Act to do so, one of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' top deputies told the Associated Press.

"The people at the local level who've been there for years could make the decisions about what services to purchase, what equipment to buy to fulfill the general broad obligations laid out in that law," Frank Brogan, the assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, told the AP in interview published Friday.

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