Atlanta Public Schools poured more than $9 million last year into protecting its students with armed police, cameras and metal detectors. But that didn't stop a student with a grudge from shooting and injuring a classmate outside Price Middle School. Coming just weeks after a deadly massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, the shooting last month in Atlanta underscores the challenges schools face: how to keep campuses safe without turning them into police states. Around metro-Atlanta, districts have bolstered their spending on security even as the recession has forced other education cuts and federal grant money for safe schools has evaporated. A review of records by the Atlanta...
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