WEST PLAINS, Mo. - A rural school district in the south-central Missouri town of West Plains now allows some employees to carry concealed weapons into its school.

The West Plains Daily Quill reported the Fairview R-XI District board recently voted to pay for firearms training for an unspecified number of employees. The district is withholding the names of those allowed to take guns into its school.

The Fairview district has about 600 pupils from preschool through eighth grade in a single school building.

Northwest Arkansas, Pages 10 on 03/27/2013