Education Week: School Safety, Mental Health Programs Falter with Gun Bill

Fans of bipartisan-backed school safety and mental health bills will have to find another legislative vehicle for their programs, now that Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, has pulled a gun violence measure from consideration, after a key vote on bolstering background checks for would-be gun buyers failed to gain sufficient support. (Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was not too happy about that.)

The measure, which would have been the first major congressional response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, may have been controversial when it comes to gun violence.

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