"The 'updated' guidance does not come close to addressing our concerns,” Cassidy said of the department’s latest FAQ. In September, the department said it “strongly encourages” states and schools to “implement student-centered policies and practices” even as it acknowledged spending on campus entryways and some infrastructure improvement was allowable.
The Senate Republican criticized other department suggestions and proposals for how states and schools can spend the money. In Cardona’s response to Cassidy’s March 30 letter, the secretary highlighted four areas of government-approved spending: Emergency plans such as shooter drills school-based police officers security equipment including cameras and metal detectors and threat assessment systems or teams to identify potential attackers. In Cassidy’s home territory, Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley has announced his intent to use federal money on tougher school entryways. Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne pushed cities to use local grant money for school cops last week, and released polling showing broad support for officers on campus. Bill Lee pitched legislative and budget measures to fortify schools and send more security funding to public and private institutions. In the days following the Nashville shooting, Tennessee Republican Gov. Republicans are already moving ahead on security spending. Last month, Cassidy told Cardona in a letter that state and district leaders also “need to know that they can and should use these funds to harden schools” and urged the secretary to make clear that spending on “imperative” physical infrastructure and hardening techniques is allowed. “These children, these teachers, they should be focusing on their mental health, as well.” “We have to do more to protect our schools so they aren't turned into prisons,” President Joe Biden said last month in the immediate aftermath of the Nashville shooting. The Biden administration has sought to prod local officials into spending the money on “nurturing learning environments” instead of focusing solely on hardening schools. | APĬOPS, CAMERAS, AND THREATS - States are in the early stages of distributing $1 billion included in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act for school safety grants.
The Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher had reopened with stepped-up security and a new administrator. And don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: and police officer directs traffic at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., on Jan. Reach out with tips to today’s host at and also my colleagues Michael Stratford ( ), Bianca Quilantan ( ) and Mackenzie Wilkes ( ). His GOP colleagues in the Senate aren’t optimistic any of those measures will survive. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s new debt limit negotiating proposal set to be unveiled Monday morning will include broad moves to restrict food assistance for millions of low-income Americans. “The administration is getting in the way of this legislation accomplishing that goal.” “The purpose of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act was to prevent shootings like Nashville,” Cassidy said in a statement to Weekly Education. Cassidy, in turn, accuses the administration of “dragging their feet” and hampering schools’ ability to receive the federal funds. “Schools must be safe environments for students to learn and grow, and no student, parent, or teacher should worry about their physical safety at or around school buildings.”
Bill Cassidy, (R-La.), ranking member of the Senate HELP committee. “Shootings should never happen in any of our schools or communities,” Cardona wrote Friday in a letter obtained by Weekly Education to Sen. But school safety tension continues to simmer between President Joe Biden’s administration and conservatives after yet another shooting last month killed three students and three adults inside a Nashville private school. The department is reiterating similar points in a newly finalized FAQ document for schools. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is reminding a top Republican that metal detectors, student threat assessments and active shooter drills are fair game for federal funds approved under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
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