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The Safe Schools 101 Initiative came as a
result of the terrible tragedy of the tornadoes
we had in May of this year. Anytime something
like that happens, then the public outcry is going
to be "Why don't we have safe room in schools? Why
aren't our schools safer for our children? So we've
gone out. We're trying to look at the schools. We've
got 517 school districts in this state. Roughly
1,800 school buildings. So we're trying to do an
assessment to find out exactly what the needs are
out there. How many of the schools have basements?
Whether or not safe rooms, there are areas of refuge
that can be of help. It's extremely important that
this assessment ... with the engineers ... with the
architects ... does an exceptional job of course
going out and looking at the potential for what we
can do in the future with these schools and how we
can make them safer for our students. This is
about the safety of our kids. As simple as that.
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