The DISD trustees claimed a good cause exemption from a new state law requiring armed personnel at all schools.
DISD would need to fill roughly 160 positions, Elizalde said. Dallas ISD operates its own police force, and Dallas secondary schools have long had officers stationed on campus. But the district has to figure out what to do about the district’s many elementary schools.
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