Max Schachter’s Non-Profit Awarded $2 Million To Develop School Safety Technology Parkland Talk – Parkland Talk

Max Schachter {Safe Schools for Alex}

By Kevin Deutsch

Safe Schools For Alex, a nonprofit formed by Max Schachter, whose son Alex was murdered during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, was awarded a nearly $2 million grant from the federal government to develop an enhanced school safety dashboard for Floridas public K-12 schools.

Along with the University of Florida, Schachters 501(c)(3) was awarded $1,998,585 by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs to fund a pilot program for the new dashboard.

SafeSchools for Alex is extremely excited to partner with the University of Floridaand the Florida Department of Education to create the first real-time public SchoolSafety Dashboard toassistparents,schools,legislators, and law enforcementin their efforts to reduce violence and exclusionarydiscipline in all K-12 schools statewide, Max Schachter said in a written announcement Thursday. We hope this pilot programbecomes a model for how data can be used to makeschools safer across the United States.

Chris Curran, who directs the Education Policy Research Center at the University of Florida, is collaborating with Schachters nonprofit on the project.

The opportunity to collaborate on expanding the work Safe Schools for Alex has begun while leveraging the robust school safety data collected in Florida provides unprecedented opportunities to use data to inform how and where we target supports to ensure safe schools, Curran said.

Following several high-profile school shootings in recent years, including the attack that killed 17 people at MSD on Feb. 14, 2018, policymakers and educators have sought new ways to protect students in school. The new dashboard program aims to further protect kids from violent acts.

In partnership with the Florida Department of Educations Office of Safe Schools, the newly funded initiative will work to build on Safe Schools for Alexs existing school safety dashboards to enhance the user experience, incorporate more frequent updates of data, glean actionable insights from analysis of the data and support school personnel on the use of the dashboard, according to the announcement.

According to the announcement, work on the enhanced school safety data dashboard project will begin in the coming months and continue through 2024.

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