State Comptroller Thomas Dinapoli says the State Education Department needs to make a better effort to make sure school districts are following safety planning requirements.
demonstrate they had annual safety plans or trained employees on how to follow them.
Dinapoli released an audit finding the SED doesn’t do enough to make sure districts are following requirements of the Safe Schools Against Violence in Education Act (SAVE). He says his staff found many districts couldn’t
The SAVE act was meant to harden schools against possible school shooter attacks.