AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Just weeks into the school year, Texas school districts responded to numerous violent threats, with Nexstar’s Texas stations reporting on threats to at least 20 schools.
State lawmakers on Wednesday reviewed the impact of House Bill 3, a 2023 school safety law passed in aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting.
Lawmakers and superintendents at that hearing identified shortfalls in the law, which imposes broad security mandates that include infrastructure changes, training upgrades and an armed guard at every campus. But some lawmakers said that the bill did not come with enough money to implement those requirements…