Implementing a clear backpack policy is better described as "security theater" than a meaningful, effective school safety strategy, according to one school safety expert.

A potential solution to a statewide teacher shortage issue has education leaders feeling as though Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is undermining the qualifications of classroom instructors.

The Mississippi Board of Education voted to remove a policy that barred individuals with enhanced concealed carry permits from carrying guns in elementary and secondary public schools, revising a 1990 policy that previously prohibited anyone other than "duly authorized law enforcement officials" from doing so.