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Act 29 requires drills, emergency plans and threat-assessment policies in schools
Summary
Committee heard that Act 29 (school safety) requires public and eligible approved independent schools to adopt option-based response drills twice yearly, all-hazards emergency operations plans, access-control and visitor policies, and to implement a model behavioral threat-assessment policy produced by the Agency of Education.
Belle St. James, Legislative Council, summarized Act 29’s school safety requirements for the House Education Committee on Jan. 17. The law requires school districts and approved independent schools to adopt option-based response drills twice per year (commonly called "run, hide, fight" or similar), adopt an all-hazards emergency operations plan, and adopt an access-control…
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