Issue Position: School Safety

Issue Position

It is past time for significant action on the school safety epidemic.

Each day, Tennessee has a contract with parents to keep their children safe from the time they get to school or on the bus until the time they return home. As a teacher who has worked in two different schools where school shootings have occurred, Delynn has first-hand experience with the school violence epidemic we face -- noting that often nothing gets done. Funding has to be the first piece of the puzzle so Delynn has suggested that the Tennessee Lottery dedicate a game, solely for the purpose of making significant safety upgrades to our schools and partially subsidizing the salaries of school safety officers until local school districts can afford to absorb the extra costs. This is real action that can help.

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