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Budget eliminates emergency grants; districts regroup
- 03-16-2011
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By Nirvi Shah/Education Week
While working on her doctoral dissertation, Karen Z. Schulte learned Columbine High School had well-developed plans to handle crises—before the massacre. But the Colorado school had never tested them. “I thought, ‘I don’t want to be in the same boat,’ ” she said. Now, as superintendent of the 10,000-student Janesville district in Wisconsin, Ms. Schulte has a grant from the federal government that paid for training school employees in how to react in an emergency. But the source of that money, in the form of Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools grants from the federal office of safe and drug-free schools, has evaporated. After paying for hundreds of school districts to prepare the way Janesville did, the roughly $30 million grant program finds its future up in the air. (more...)
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