State Plans To Check Locks On School Doors Following Uvalde Shooting

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(Austin, TX) — The Texas Education Agency plans to check out hundreds of thousands of school building door locks before the next school year starts.

TEA Commissioner Mike Morath told Texas senators on Tuesday that the agency will be making sure about 340-thousand doors lock properly. Needed repairs will be recommended, and state officials will have meetings with each school district’s safety committee.

Morath made his comments to a Texas Senate committee hearing about last month’s deadly school shooting in Uvalde, where it was revealed that the school building’s door locks didn’t work.