"Two Iowa districts in recent years have approved arming their staff before later reversing their policies. Spirit Lake and Cherokee both opted not to go forward after EMC Insurance declined to cover the rural districts ahead of the 2023-24 school year if they proceeded with arming staff."

Yep...and that's going to be the reason why this won't happen.

Insurance companies are few and far between who will take on a school district anyway....EMC is one the leading carriers in that industry.

EMC hates guns. If a school wants to have a gun on the premises today...they want that gun to be held by a law enforcement professional who is working for the municipality...NOT the school.

-Is that because it's covered under the LEO's insurance policy?

exactly...the school would be successfully transferring the civil risk to the LEO and their department.

At least EMC can live with that....but not having an employee of the school be armed. That scares the hell out of them.

EMC used to write most of the community colleges in Kansas until Kansas starting allowing conceal and carry on college campuses.....they non-renewed the entire book of that once that happened.

"The school resource officer is the way to go."

a school resource officer that's technically in the employ of the local city or county law enforcement.

kind of ironic that the greedy insurance companies represent a huge obstacle to the extreme right wingers getting what they want.