Please take less than 10 minutes to contact your lawmakers about Senate Bill 911 and its companion Assembly Bill 1001.
This one-time, $30 million grant program would allow private and public schools to apply for funding for safety infrastructure updates – like updated locks, hardcore doors, intercom systems and alarms – as well as life-saving staff training.
WCRIS urges you to contact your legislators via our Advocacy Portal by noon on Monday, Feb. 5. Your legislators need to hear just how much this grant program could help your school.
Go here for a summary of the proposed program. Please share it and the link to our Advocacy Portal with your school community.
Thank you to those who have already written to your lawmakers! Your messages have generated great energy and interest for the bill at the Capitol.
Schools that didn’t receive a safety grant in 2018 will be given priority in the proposed program. However, even if you were previously awarded a grant, please still contact your legislators to support the many schools in your jurisdiction or just down the street that have yet to receive one.
Lawmakers could update the eligibility requirements or allocate additional funds for the program so messages from any school, regardless of previous receipt of a safety grant, helps.
