A Texas school district has assembled a SWAT team [1] to bolster school safety, local NBC affiliate KVEO reports. The decision comes after the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School [2], the Huffington Post reports. Following the Connecticut massacre, the Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District dispatched police officers to all its elementary schools [3] in order to strengthen security. Though the project, dubbed Operation Safeguard, was suspended [4] in January after Edinburg CISD police chief Rick Perez announced schools were safe, the district decided to put together a special SWAT — Special Weapons And Tactics — unit to prepare for potential future threats. According to school officials, the district’s proximity to the United States-Mexico border [5] was also a factor in the decision, ABC affiliate KRGV reports…