$1.1M grant for disaster prep for Wash. schools
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Washington education officials are using a $1.1 million federal grant to help schools prepare for natural disasters.
The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction is working with 35 school districts across the state to develop a statewide emergency plan. The first step is an online survey. The nine areas the plan will likely address include drought, earthquakes, flood, forest fires, landslides, snow, tsunamis, volcanos and wind storms.
More help for disaster mitigation planning will come from public meetings around the state next year. The statewide plan is expected to be finished by October 2014.
The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction is working with 35 school districts across the state to develop a statewide emergency plan. The first step is an online survey. The nine areas the plan will likely address include drought, earthquakes, flood, forest fires, landslides, snow, tsunamis, volcanos and wind storms.
More help for disaster mitigation planning will come from public meetings around the state next year. The statewide plan is expected to be finished by October 2014.
This grant will be wasted and no one will ever know where it was spent/stolen/embezzled/lost.............
This high level plan does little for each school. It fulfills federal requirements and we know how well those plans work.
Drought?Â
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Good luck getting it with the huge cuts the Feds are contemplating. Wouldn't want the wealthy to pay anything more, so we'll cut medicare, medicaid, social services, school funding programs, public safety projects, police and fire protection....you know.....all the non-essentials like that!
Sounds like someone is getting a new car for Christmas.
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 @deadcandance Floods and fires are a hell of a lot more likely to actually happen than a school shooting.
@deadcandance Why a non-lethal weapon? Why would you meet lethal violence with that?