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Not All Arizona Schools Were Winners In Quest For Resource Officer Funding

Lily Altavena
Sky Schaudt/KJZZ
Lily Altavena

About 400 Arizona public schools were recently selected to receive state grants for counselors, social workers and school police officers.

Not every school that applied for the funding was a winner, though.

More than 400 other schools were not successful, including one elementary school near a deadly area in Phoenix.

The Arizona Republic's Lily Altavena has been reporting on the grant winners and losers.

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