Issue: School Safety and Security

More must be done to secure our schools, and we support increasing federal assistance to schools struggling with the cost of meeting security needs, promoting adoption of successful state school security assistance programs and initiatives encouraging nationwide use of best practices for school security.

We support increasing funding for the School Violence Prevention Program at the U.S. Department of Justice, as the funding for grants can currently only cover a fraction of the available solutions to improve security at schools and on school grounds.