School District Awarded Safety Grant
/The Kearney School District is one of the 566 school districts, charter schools, and nonpublic schools that have received grant funds from the second round of funding for the School Safety Grant Program.
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Division of Financial and Administrative Services made the FY2024 Round II School Safety Grant Award announcement on September 29.
On June 30, 2023, Governor Mike Parson signed House Bill No. 2 for Fiscal Year 2024 which appropriated $50 million in funding for a second round of School Safety Grants to support physical safety improvements in local education agencies (LEAs) and nonpublic schools (NPSs) across the state.
The FY2024 School Safety Grant Program is a competitive grant which aims to support Missouri’s LEAs and NPS with valuable opportunities to improve their safety measures through physical safety upgrades.
The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education reports that the Kearney School District will receive a School Safety Grant for $200,000.
The purpose of this grant is to provide financial support to LEAs and NPS for school safety programs, including physical security upgrades and associated technology (e.g. door locks, monitoring systems), bleeding control kits, and automatic external defibrillators.
KPGZ News - Brian Watts contributed to this story
