Safe to Learn Act

[Anonymous]

This (2018) law restructures the governance system for overseeing school safety policies and grants, calls for staffing guidelines regarding adequate law enforcement coverage at all schools, and calls for an expanded role of local school systems in coordinating students’ mental health services.

Maryland Safe to Learn Act of 2018, approved by then Governor Hogan.

Synopsis
Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to collaborate with certain persons and entities to provide a comprehensive approach to school safety; requiring the School Safety Subcabinet to develop a model policy for building assessment teams; requiring the development of a training curriculum for school resource officers and other school security employees; authorizing the Safe Schools Fund to provide grants to local school systems to enhance school safety; requiring a $10,000,000 annual appropriation to the Fund for certain purposes;etc.

https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/legislation/details/sb1265?ys=2018rs

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/policy/Maryland%20Safe%20to%20Learn%20Act%20of%202018.pdf

https://www.mabe.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-Safe-to-Learn-Act-Summary-4.16.18.pdf

[Anonymous]

Yes, MCPS claims the Safe to Learn Act is an unfunded mandate and therefore they use wide latitude with how they comply with it or not. At least that's what was publicly discussed most recently in the BOE during budget hearings.