The State Board of Education did not, as was reported by several news outlets on Thursday, vote to allow guns to be carried on K-12 campuses. Guns have, in fact, been allowed in Mississippi schools for some people since 2012.
by Julia James, Mississippi Today July 21, 2022 Officials at the Mississippi Department of Education “responded to misinformation” late Thursday night to clear up confusion about what the State Board of Education voted through in its meeting earlier in the day. The State Board of Education did not, as was reported by several news outlets on Thursday, vote to allow guns to be carried on K-12 campuses.
This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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