46 Ohio schools have armed teachers and staff

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A year after Ohio lowered its minimum training hours for arming school staff, 46 districts submitted rosters.

The names of teachers and school personnel carrying guns are not public records, nor are the total number of armed staff in each district. But a list of participating schools was provided by the Ohio Department of Public Safety.

Their locations revealed a divide between the state’s three largest urban counties where no schools signed up and the rural ones like Belmont, Logan and Tuscarawas counties where four schools registered per county.

Read more on The Columbus Dispatch.

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