Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Elizabeth (Betsy) Dee DeVosNEA president says Azar and DeVos should resign over school reopening guidance The Hill's 12:30 Report - Presented by Facebook - You might want to download TikTok now Former DeVos chief of staff joins anti-Trump group MORE said Monday that she does not think teachers should carry assault-style weapons as part of the Trump administration’s push to harden schools.

“Do you think they should be able — teachers should be able to carry assault weapons since presumably they may face assault weapons?” NBC “Today” host Savannah Guthrie asked DeVos, who will chair a presidential commission on school safety.

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“I don’t think assault weapons in schools, carried by any school personnel, is the appropriate thing,” DeVos replied.

“But again this is an issue that I think is best decided at the local level by communities and by states,” she added.

DeVos’s remarks come after the White House released a set of proposals Sunday to address gun violence and school safety after the shooting at a high school in south Florida. One of those proposals is for states to provide school employees with firearm training.

The administration, however, is not pushing for universal background checks or upping the age requirement to purchase certain weapons, such as the AR-15.

President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE previously expressed support for raising the age requirement following the shooting in Parkland, Fla., which the suspect allegedly carried out using a legally purchased AR-15.