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The Killingly Board of Education has recently voted to create five armed security officer positions for the school district. Superintendent Robert Angeli said...

Killingly school board members approved the hiring of five new armed security guards who will be posted at each of the districts schools.

The state has summoned members of the Killingly Board of Education and the superintendent to answer a few more questions about whether the board’s rejection of a grant-funded mental health center for the high school violated the state’s educational interests.

In a letter sent to Killingly officials Monday, the state Department of Education said “questions … have arisen” after an “exhaustive and time-sensitive” review of a number of issues raised in an April complaint from parents that the board initially responded to in May.

Michael McKeon, of the CT State Department of Education, wrote the state has “painstakingly reviewed” the voluminous documents filed by both parties.

The same night residents spoke about student mental health and school safety, the Killingly Board of Education considered limiting public commenting.

For months, Killingly has been embroiled in a battle over what would have been a grant-funded mental health clinic available at the high school.

A school board meeting last week devolved into a shouting match, and neither side shows...

For months, the town has been embroiled in a battle over what would have been a grant-funded mental health clinic available at the high school.

Lawyers on each side of a Killingly BOE complaint investigation are still making their cases through a series of legal briefs.