The group has set up a fund to provide financing to school districts for emergency response equipment and technology. For its flagship project, School Safety Partners estimates that it will cost $30 million to install a statewide emergency communications system that would link responders with school personnel http://www.schoolsafecom.org [by two-way radio]. The group proposes that the fund cover this cost now while Colorado pursues, over time, funding from DHS, Department of Education, Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce, the Federal Communications Commission, the Army, and other sources.
At the recommendation of School Safety Partners and the http://rems.ed.gov [Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance Center], the U.S. Department of Education Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) released in December revised guidelines for schools to pursue Federal preparedness funding opportunities with local emergency management agencies and authorities such as law enforcement.