School Safety
On March 14, the House passed, 407 to 10, H.R. 4904, the STOP School Violence Act. Introduced by Representative John Rutherford (FL-R), the bill would authorize $50 million in grant funding for schools to conduct training to prevent violence, set up anonymous reporting systems for threats, and implement other safety measures. Representative Rutherford said, “The best way to keep our students and teachers safe is to give them to tools and the training to recognize warning signs to prevent violence from ever entering our schools’ grounds … this bill aims to do just that.” A Senate companion measure, S. 2495,…
