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Students, health professionals and Red Cross push to require CPR and AED training in schools

5569872 · July 21, 2025
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Summary

Multiple bills proposing mandatory CPR/AED training and certification in Massachusetts schools drew testimony from survivors, student trainers, medical professionals and the American Red Cross, who said teaching simple CPR and defibrillator use to students would save lives.

Survivors, family members and medical professionals urged the Joint Committee on Education to pass legislation that would require CPR and automated external defibrillator (AED) training for students and promote staff certification. Testimony covered several bills that would make instruction a condition of graduation or a required part of the health curriculum. Survivors described how bystander CPR and…

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