NEW: Uvalde doubled its spending on school security since 2017.
I am still stunned and can not imagine what the parents are feeling-nor the community that seemed to do things to make their kids safe at school.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-security-plan-rcna30568
NEW: Uvalde doubled its spending on school security since 2017.
It hardened the school — hiring its own police force, installing fences. It created a threat reporting system & brought in social workers.
It happened anyway. 
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The Uvalde school district had an extensive safety plan. 19 children were killed anyway.
Even security plans that appear to be up to the latest research-based standards may have gaps and fall short of preventing the worst-case scenario, experts said.
May 25, 2022, 7:43 PM CDT / Updated May 26, 2022, 1:58 PM CDT
By Suzy Khimm and Jon Schuppe
School officials in Uvalde, Texas, promised to do everything they could to protect students from a mass shooting.
Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District had doubled its security budget in recent years, according to public documents, in part to comply with state legislation passed in the wake of a 2018 school shooting in which eight students and two teachers were killed. The district adopted an array of security measures that included its own police force, threat assessment teams at each school, a threat reporting system, social media monitoring software, fences around schools and a requirement that teachers lock their classroom doors, according to the security plan posted on the district’s website. ..................................................
..................Authorities have not explained how the shooter got in the back door — or the classroom door, which according to the district’s security plan should have been locked.
The school was holding an awards ceremony Tuesday for students who were just a few days from finishing the school year, which may be one explanation for the open doors. Parents reportedly were coming and going from the school all day.
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