Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed into law a measure that gives the state’s teachers more access to criminal information about their student, the Associated Press reports. The law will require written notification of student arrests as well as details about parolees from the juvenile justice system. It was prompted by the 2009 fatal stabbing of a teacher in Tyler, Texas, by a 16-year-old who had been released from the Texas Youth Commission…
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