Tennessee public school teachers and staff may see new state funding to implement wearable, silent panic buttons to communicate swiftly and clearly during emergencies.

State Rep. Ron Gant, R-Piperton, and state Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, R-Franklin, announced on Oct. 22 that they will seek to expand a pilot program that furnished six schools with such devices in 2024 to fund implementation in every public school in the state .

Noelle Rasmussen, a Williamson County mother and state leader of Make Our Schools Safe, says every school and every teacher should have access to the alarm system, which she credits with having prevented a tragedy in Crossville last year.

"A student stood up and announced that he had a firearm and threatened to use it," Rasmussen said. "His teacher depl

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