Amendment #643 to H3400

Safe and Supportive Schools

Representatives Balser of Newton, Chan of Quincy, Coppinger of Boston, Ayers of Quincy, Henriquez of Boston, Brady of Brockton, Khan of Newton, Swan of Springfield, Sciortino of Medford, Stanley of Waltham, Kaufman of Lexington, Fox of Boston, Decker of Cambridge, Keefe of Worcester, Hecht of Watertown, McMurtry of Dedham and Garballey of Arlington move to amend the bill in section 2 by inserting after item 7061-9611 the following item:

“xxxx-xxxx For the safe and supportive schools grant program established by the department of elementary and secondary education to pilot and share an effective process for school and district teams to develop and implement safe and supportive school action plans; provided that said action plans shall be based on the framework and self-assessment tool created pursuant to section 19 of chapter 321 of the acts of 2008 and described in the final report of the behavioral health and public schools task force; and provided further that the districts shall also create district plans that support the recipient schools……………$400,000”