Broward County schools hired hundreds of new safety officers and counselors after voters approved a property tax increase in 2018. District officials say those jobs are at risk if voters don't renew the referendum this August.
The plan, expected to start some time in spring 2022, will entail using metal-detection wands to screen bookbags and purses of various classrooms on a random basis.
The latest of several security upgrades since the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., in 2018, the South Florida school district will randomly screen bookbags and purses with metal-detection wands starting this spring.
The following is a transcript of an interview with Dr. Rosalind Osgood, Broward County School Board chair, that aired on Sunday, August 15, 2021, on "Face the Nation."