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To authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to local educational agencies to make physical improvements at the elementary schools and secondary schools served by such agencies, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill would authorize the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to local school districts for physical improvements at elementary and secondary schools. Grant recipients would be required to use funds to hire an armed school resource officer and establish a single controlled entry point with a locked anteroom where a security officer inspects all visitors and metal detectors screen entrants before accessing the rest of the school building. The Secretary of Education would be required to report to Congress within one year on how the grant program is being implemented.
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Top reported contributors to Jefferson Van Drew’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $176,557
- ENTREPRENEUR $70,972
- PULSE VASCULAR $9,900
- ICONA RESORTS $9,900
- MONZO CATANESE HILLEGASS $9,000
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Actions (2)
- Sep 30, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
- Sep 30, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 30, 2025
Mr. Van Drew introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce
A BILL
To authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to local educational agencies to make physical improvements at the elementary schools and secondary schools served by such agencies, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Stronger Schools Act”.
SEC. 2. PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENT GRANT PROGRAM.
(a) In General.—The Secretary of Education shall make grants, on a competitive basis, to local educational agencies to perform the physical improvements referred to in subsection (b) for elementary schools and secondary schools served by such agencies.
(b) Use of Funds.—Each local educational agency receiving a grant under subsection (a) shall use such funds to ensure each elementary school and secondary school served by such agency—
(1) hires a school resource officer who carries a firearm; and
(2) establishes a single point of entry that includes a locked anteroom—
(A) in which all guests of such school are inspected by such officer prior to entry into another area of such school; and
(B) which has metal detectors at such point of entry.
(c) Application.—To receive a grant under subsection (a), a local educational agency shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require.
(d) Report.—Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on the implementation of subsection (a).
(e) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) ESEA terms.—The terms “elementary school”, “local educational agency”, “secondary school”, and “State educational agency” have the meaning given such terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
(2) School resource officer.—The term “school resource officer” has the meaning given such term in section 1709 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10389). <all>
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