Districts required to install panic buttons inside schools February 26, 2021 at 4:25 PM EST - Updated February 26 at 4:25 PM
School districts statewide are up against a strict deadline to install silent panic buttons in every school by the start of the next school year, which is now required by law.
But there are new concerns over delays that districts might face in getting those systems up and working by August 1.
More than three years after the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a law created in the aftermath, Alyssa a Law, will take effect during the 2021-22 school year.
By Sharon Aron Baron
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in both chambers of Congress reintroduced the EAGLES Act, named for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Eagles.
If enacted, the act would expand the U.S. Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center to focus on school violence prevention on a national level.
Introduced in the House of Representatives by U.S. Representatives Ted Deutch, D-Fla, and Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., Marco Rubio, R-Fla, Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Rick Scott R-Fla., Maggie Hassan D-N.H. and Susan Collins R-Maine, introduced the Senate companion.
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