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Board approves comprehensive safety plans; trustees direct staff to expand CPR/AED training after student concerns about facilities
Summary
Trustees approved school safety plans and accepted board direction to incorporate expanded student CPR/AED training next school year after Student Board Representative Liliana Davis detailed widespread CPR rollout and students raised equity and lighting concerns at specific campuses.
The Sweetwater Union High School District Board approved comprehensive school safety plans on March 10 and directed staff to incorporate expanded CPR/AED training into future safety planning.
Student Board Representative Liliana Davis briefed trustees on districtwide CPR training undertaken this year, saying more than 13,000 ninth and tenth graders had received CPR instruction so far and that training for middle schools, alternative education and adult schools was continuing. Trustee comments during the safety‑plan discussion put the figure “closer to 22,000” as an update; trustees asked staff to embed recurring CPR/AED instruction in the district’s health and safety plan for the coming school year so new cohorts receive training without repeating the entire rollout.
Davis also raised student concerns about facility equity at Southwest High School, reporting that the girls’ softball team had to walk about 530 steps (roughly 4 minutes, 54 seconds) to the nearest restroom compared with 58 steps (about 39 seconds) for the boys’ baseball team. She flagged lighting shortages at Olympian High School’s soccer field that create safety risks for athletes practicing in low light. The board’s safety‑plan presenter described the plan as a multidisciplinary document covering access control, behavioral threat assessment and emergency protocols; trustees supported adding CPR/AED training as a districtwide preparedness measure.
