Texas School Safety Center defends delays in accountability

With hoaxes of school shootings impacting at least four schools across Texas this week, campus police and administrators were forced to utilize their district's state-mandated emergency operations plans.

The center on Thursday defended itself against accusations that it wasn't fast enough to hold school districts accountable, saying it decided on a more collaborative approach with noncompliant districts. Still, our investigation found hundreds of Texas school districts didn't submit proper plans on time and yet only one district was forced to admit that in public in a hearing, which is the only non-compliance penalty under the law.

There were 303 schools that didn't comply, but the Center refused to notify the Texas Education Agency of the noncompliance, the letter claims. It also mentions 10 schools didn't submit a plan and another 87 submitted deficient plans, but just one district was notified that it needed to hold a public hearing due to its noncompliance "despite numerous pleas from Center employees" that all of the districts be notified.

He said since the law was new, and this was the first time districts had to report their emergency operations plans, the Texas School Safety Center staff, together with the Governor's office, opted for collaboration instead of strict accountability in that first round of reporting. "I did not see a deadline anywhere in the requirement from a compliance standpoint of when those courses had to be done," Mason said. "From the board meetings, it's obvious that this center was keeping their board appraised and working aggressively to be able to implement and get that registry online."

Ask Greg Abbott what he’s doing regarding GunViolence. Perhaps we start here.

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