Originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on May 12, 2023 Idaho schools will soon see new money for school safety. Applications for the Securing Our Future grant program — a $20 million initiative designed to help schools ramp up their safety measures — opened Monday. And Idaho districts could start to see the funds by early July. […]
State inspectors try to get out into every school once every three years for a safety assessment. They didn’t come close to staying on schedule in 2021-22 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted K-12 operations across the state. All told, the state assessed 152 schools last school year, just one-fifth of Idaho’s 735 […]