The funds “may be used for activities that help restore the safety of the district’s students, teachers, staff, and families.”
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, announced this Monday the sending of 1.4 million euros (1.5 million dollars) to the Uvalde school district, after the shooting carried out by an 18-year-old that left 19 children and two female teachers killed at Robb Elementary School.
“The United States Department of Education has expanded the Biden Administration’s whole-of-government response to the tragic mass shooting at Robb Elementary School by disbursing a $1.5 million grant from the School Emergency Response project to the Violence (SERV, for its acronym in English) to the Uvalde Independent School District,” says a statement from the White House.
Thus, he explained that the funds “can be used for activities that help restore the safety of district students, teachers, staff and families, and that address the specific needs of people directly affected by the shooting” .
Senators from the Republican Party and the Democratic Party could imminently present a proposal for a joint bill to increase, even minimally, gun control in the United States.
The agreement would include a series of principles, without a formal text closed yet, so the initiative would have a long legislative history. Even so, it would be a great advance given the division that this issue provokes despite recent attacks such as the one at the school in Uvalde, Texas, in which a young man killed 19 children and two teachers.
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