The state school board wants the Kansas Legislature to restore a program intended to improve school security with better locks, security cameras and door barricades.
It was among about $20 million in budget enhancement requests that the board approved, including money for board pay raises, the mentor teacher program and professional educator development.
The board this week agreed to ask lawmakers to approve $15 million to fully fund a program that had been flooded with requests from school districts over the years.
The Legislature had started funding the program at about $5 million in the aftermath of a 2018 shooting . . .
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