Rep. White Announces School Safety Funding For Johnston County Schools

RALEIGH  – Thanks to funding from the N.C. General Assembly, Johnston County Schools has been awarded $1,693,500 in additional school safety resources for the 2022-2023 school year. The funding, which is part of more than $74.1 million in school safety grants announced across the state by N.C. Department of Public Instruction’s Center for Safer Schools, will be used for safety equipment, school resource officers, training, and services for students in crisis.

Johnston County is the fastest growing county in the state, and we have to continue making sure our classrooms are safe as more kids are added to the school system,” said Rep. Donna White (R-Johnston.)  “As a member of North Carolina’s Safer Schools Task Force, I have worked for several years on new initiatives, and these additional funds will be a great help in making sure our schools are safe places for our students and staff.”

In 2018, the Republican-led N.C. General Assembly authorized a new School Safety Grant Program to improve safety in public school units by providing grants for school resource officers, services for students in crisis, training to increase school safety, safety equipment in schools and additional school mental health support personnel.

Since then, more than $120 million has been awarded to public school units across North Carolina.

“The School Safety Grant enhances schools’ efforts to keep our students safe,” said Karen W. Fairley, executive director of the Center for Safer Schools. “We’re thankful that we had the funding available to distribute, and we know it will go to good use.”

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt said the funding is critical to ensuring that schools are safe for students and staff.

“School safety is a top priority for the Department of Public Instruction as it is for students, families, educators – all of us,” Truitt said. “It goes without saying that safety is an essential condition for effective teaching and learning. The Center for Safer Schools did a great job ensuring that each applicant received as much funding as possible to meet that critical need.”

A full list of districts and schools awarded grants can be found here.

11 COMMENTS

    • look around, what other proof do you need?
      no one can say where or when the next shooting can take the life of a child.

      • No but I can tell you, the life of a child will be taken in a sterile doctors office in the name of “ choice” EVERY DAY IN AMERICA. hypocrisy much?

  1. Reducing fatherless homes by removing the incentives for replacing a Dad with Uncle Sam would reduce the number of violent and mentally ill children. Attack this problem at the root, not the leaves.

    • My husband grew up without a father. He died and left his wife with a whole lot of children but none went on to shoot up a school. So….next theory please…

      • A lot to unpack there. How many children? Did your mother-in-law have extended support? How old was your husband when this occurred?

        I grew up without a father (divorced when I was 3), and I can tell you it was devastating, and yes, it was the first redirection that put me on a terrible road.

  2. Almost every school shooter, and most mass shooters including recent ones, had one thing in common. They were on some form of anti depressant or behavioral medication. Pharma doesn’t want that out though.

    • @CaptainObvious: There’s a lot more than just one thing they all have in common…. 98% of shooters are male, 72% of shooters were White, 69% of shooters come from Christian homes. But the LAMESTREAM media is afraid to report these statistics.

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