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Obama's Gun Control Plan: What High School Parents Should Know - High School Notes (usnews.com)

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Obama's Gun Control Plan: What High School Parents Should Know

January 21, 2013 RSS Feed Print
The president’s gun control measures include proposals to add school resource officers and mental health counselors.
The president’s gun control measures include proposals to add school resource officers and mental health counselors.
President Obama's newly unveiled gun control plan includes a host of executive orders designed to help schools prepare for and respond to shootings such as those at Sandy Hook Elementary School and Taft Union High School
Among the proposals is a new Comprehensive Schools Safety program that would include $150 million in funding to invest in areas such as mental health counseling, security personnel, and crisis intervention training.
How this funding is used at the ground level will vary from