To amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 to allow for increased use of school resource officers by local educational agencies.
Amends the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 (which is title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) to allow local educational agencies to use all of specified funds they receive for comprehensive local drug and violence prevention programs to establish school-based partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and local school systems by using school resource officers (career law enforcement officers) who operate in and around elementary and secondary schools to combat school-related crime and disorder problems, gangs, and drug activities.
Actions
May 30, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Mar 27, 2001
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.