The following article by Alison Parker was posted on the ShareBlue.com website March 24, 2018:
Thousands of students are marching to demand action on school safety. The Trump administration responded by giving them the exact opposite.
Confronted by thousands of students demanding safer schools, Trump’s callous response was to announce cuts to school safety programs.
The omnibus spending bill Trump eventually signed on Friday cut funding for two safety initiatives implemented after the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012.
Both the Comprehensive School Safety Initiative (CSSI) and Research and Evaluation of Technologies to Improve School Safety have been canceled due to the funding cuts. A terse notice posted on the Department of Justice’s agency charged with administering the programs made the reason clear. Continue reading “Trump shames America with school safety cuts as students defiantly march”