school safety

Since 2013, about $187 million funded state safety and security programs for Indiana schools.

Indiana schools get $24 million for SROs, firearm training, safety programs

Indiana’s Secured School Safety Board approved about $24 million dollars for initiatives to strengthen security in all 92 of the state’s counties.

Schools requested more than $19 million to hire school resource and law enforcement officers this year. School resource officers must be employed with or appointed by a law enforcement agency to receive funding.

Indiana schools receive $30 million for safety projects, nearly two-thirds funding resource officers

Kirsten Adair

Monroe County Community School Corporation received $100 thousand this year to spend on safety measures.

This past spring lawmakers approved House Bill 1177, which created an avenue for teachers to go through firearm training and have it paid for through the secured safety grant program.

Guns for teachers: Will HB-1177 affect schools?

Clayton Baumgarth

The 2023 - 2024 academic year will be the first full year since lawmakers passed legislation allowing schools to get state money to cover the cost of firearms training for teachers.

Part of the training emphasizes how simply locking kids down in a classroom could be more dangerous in the case of an active shooter. (Zach Herndon, WFIU/WTIU News)

How Do Teachers Prepare For And Prevent School Shootings?

Jeanie Lindsay

Metal detectors and “hardening” schools are one of several steps the state and schools are taking to keep kids safe, but another essential piece remains: how can teachers prevent or better prepare for the worst case scenario?