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Texas School Safety Center and TEA brief committee on biennial report, EOP reviews, intruder-audits and new Sentinel system

5886948 · April 10, 2025
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Texas School Safety Center director Kathy Martinez Prather and TEA's James Finley told the committee the center's training and TEA's audits have expanded statewide and that TEA's new Sentinel system will host audits, a document repository and a standardized behavioral-threat-assessment tool with automated transfer capabilities.

Kathy Martinez Prather, director of the Texas School Safety Center at Texas State University, and James Finley, deputy chief for school safety at the Texas Education Agency, presented a joint update on school safety work and statutory implementation.

Martinez Prather summarized the center's training and technical-assistance activities: a statewide learning portal with self-paced EOP and threat-assessment courses (more than 96,000 completions through fiscal 2024), 10 online toolkits, bullying-prevention videos and a new youth-ambassador effort to engage students in prevention and positive social norms. The center said it reviewed…

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