Dive Summary:

• An Arkansas state board is allowing 13 school districts to use teachers, administrators and other staff as armed guards.
• The panel did say it wouldn't accept any new applications from school districts after a warning from the state's top attorney that the licensing law it used was not intended for schools.
• Clarksville, with 2,500 students, is one of the districts that had trained teachers and staff to work as volunteer security guards with concealed handguns; those licenses had been suspended, but the board's move means it gets a two-year reprieve while the legislature studies the issue. 

From the article:

... "If there's an active shooter in my building, I'm going in," Nancy Anderson, Cutter Morning Star's superintendent, told the board. "If I have nothing to throw but staplers, so be it. I'd like to have something other than a stapler to throw at someone with a gun." ...