FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida’s new program to arm school employees is getting a negative reaction from the board overseeing the school where a teen with an assault rifle killed 17 people.

The Broward School Board voted unanimously Tuesday to ask the state to redirect its portion of the $67 million program to hire more police officers instead.

The Legislature named its effort to put more guns in schools the Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program, after the football coach who was among those killed at Broward’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The program provides a stipend for certain school employees to be prepared to fire at shooters on campus.

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