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Check Your State: Here Are the Active Shooter Training Requirements for Schools and Law Enforcement
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Even if an after-action investigation is released, a lack of national standards leads to wide variability in the detail of information in reports, ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and FRONTLINE found.
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Uvalde Students Followed Active Shooter Training & Stayed Quiet. Some Responding Officers Didn’t Realize Kids Were in Classrooms.
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“Someone Tell Me What to Do”
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