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Public School Infrastructure Fund: department details school safety grants, waitlist and award process
Summary
Department staff described the Public School Infrastructure Fund and the Safe Grants (school safety) program, summarized past allocations following school shootings, outlined award priorities (access control, surveillance, emergency alerting), and reported a multi‑million dollar waitlist.
Tim Kearney described the Public School Infrastructure Fund and how the department has used competitive awards to prioritize school safety projects.
Why it matters: the fund has been used repeatedly for school security measures since 2018 and remains a vehicle for smaller infrastructure projects that are not eligible for larger building aid awards.
Kearney traced the fund’s origin to a 2017…
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