VAN — The Van Independent School District has become the second East Texas school district and the third in the state to allow authorized faculty to carry firearms on campus. According to a press release from the district, \u201cBoard-authorized specific school employees and other persons\u201d will be allowed \u201cto possess certain firearms on school property, at school-sponsored or school-sanctioned events, and at board meetings.\u201d <\/p>\n
According to KETK, the district\u2019s campuses are spread across the city, northwest of Tyler, and, according to the statement, there was concern of effective and timely response to emergency situation. The district\u2019s new policy states that only school employees who have a current license to carry a concealed handgun would be eligible to carry on campus. Last Thursday, administrators at Union Grove ISD, a rural Upshur county district, approved a similar measure to allow select, licensed and trained teachers and administrators to have a firearm on campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
VAN — The Van Independent School District has become the second East Texas school district and the third in the state to allow authorized faculty to carry firearms on campus. According to a press release from the district, \u201cBoard-authorized specific school employees and other persons\u201d will be allowed \u201cto possess certain firearms on school property, … Continue reading Van ISD Voted To Allow Employees To “Pack Heat”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 04:00:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236267"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236485,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236267\/revisions\/236485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}