# Presentation: 157723

## Emergency Management for Schools IntroductionApril 27, 2006Denver, Colorado

**U.S. Department of Education**
**Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools**

## Overall Training Agenda

- Day 1:
- 8:00 am - 9:00 am:  		Welcome and Introduction
- 9:00 am - 9:15 am: 		Break
- 9:15 am - 10:30 am:		Concurrent Session 1
- 10:30 am - 10:45 am:	Break
- 10:45 am - 12:00 pm:	Concurrent Session 2
- 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm:		Lunch and Infectious Disease Planning 				Plenary
- 1:45 pm - 2:00 pm:		Break
- 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm:		Concurrent Session 3
- 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm:		Break and Dessert
- 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm:		Concurrent Session 4

## Overall Training Agenda

- Day 2:
- 7:30 am - 8:00 am:  		Continental Breakfast
- 8:00 am - 8:15 am: 		Recap of Day 1 and Overview of Day 2
- 8:15 am - 9:00 am:		Lessons Learned Plenary Presentation
- 9:00 am - 9:15 am:		Break
- 9:15 am - 10:30 am:		Concurrent Session 5
- 10:30 am - 10:45 am:	Break
- 10:45 pm - 11:30 am:	Concurrent Session 6
- 11:30 am - 11:40 am:	Break
- 11:40 am - 12:00 pm:	Questions and Answers, Feedback and 				Closing

## Introduction and Overview: Opening Session Agenda

- What do we know about Emergency Management for Schools?
- Why is Emergency Management for Schools important?
- Where do we want schools to be with emergency management?
- What is the role of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) in emergency management?
- What resources are available to assist with Emergency Management for Schools?

## What do we know about emergency management and schools?

## What We Know!

- Involvement with emergencies since Oklahoma City
- Project School Emergency Response to Violence (SERV)
- Two international meetings on terrorism
- Research with the US Secret Service
- On-going contact with Department of Homeland Security
- Development of Crisis Planning Guide
- Coordination with school law enforcement and state school safety centers
- ERCM grantee feedback
- Coordination with the Centers for Disease Control on infectious diseases, including Pandemic Flu

## Most school districts have emergency management plans.

## What We Know!

- However, often these plans are not:
- Comprehensive!
- Practiced regularly!
- Coordinated with the community!
- Always viewed as essential!
- Always discussed with families, staff, and students!
- Based upon sound factual data and circumstances!
- Consistent with Federal guidelines.

## Why is emergency management for schools important?

## School Today?

## Basic K-12 Statistics

**Students in Public and Private Schools:  ****	****53 million**
**Teachers in Public and Private Schools:  ****	****3 million**
**Number of Public School Districts:    ****	****	****15,000**
***	******Ranging from 100 to over 1 million students***
**Number of Schools: ****	****	****	****	****113,000**
***	******87,000 public/26,000 private—100 to 5,000+students***

## Overview of Our Nation's Schools

**There is ample opportunity to engage in misbehavior and criminal behavior**

_**53 million students X 180 school days =**_
**about 9.5 billion student school days**

## U.S. School Crime and Discipline Indicators

**Total Homicides:  24* (16 students)**

**Serious violent Crime:  88,100**

**Violent Crime (Fighting):  570,500**

**Theft:  1,095,000**

**Non-criminal but disruptive **
**incidents such as:  bullying, **
**truancy, harassment, teasing****	**

**11 million**
**  ****plus**

*** Preliminary Data (07/01/99 - 06/30/2000)****	**

***2002 Data***

## Incidents

**May 2004**
**A murder-suicide, of a SLT high school cafeteria worker and her husband, occurred on a grassy area in front of West HS.**
**June 2004**
**A 13-year old student came to school on the last day of classes and threatened to shoot people with a high-powered rifle.  The boy brought three guns, a knife, flammable liquid and more than 100 rounds of ammunition to school, in a van driven by his mother.**
**June 2004**
**At least three people were killed when a Union Pacific Corp freight  train carrying chlorine gas and anhydrous ammonia struck another  train and spread a  hazardous gas cloud. **
**October 2004**
**Two students were charged in an alleged plot to bomb the commons of their high school in eastern Utah and kill classmates and teachers. **
**October 2004**
**The principal of Homewood Montessori School was killed by her husband.**

## Incidents, Continued

**November 2004**
**A National Guard fighter jet crashes into a New Jersey school. **
**November 2004**
**The parents of two 11-year old boys whose frozen bodies were found in a field after they skipped class and guzzled vodka sued the school district for $4m. **
**November 2004**
**A  Valpariso HS student pulled out two knives inside a classroom and slashed eight other students at the start of school. **
**January 2005**
**A 17-year old was repeatedly stabbed by another student in the cafeteria at Montbello HS; the victim later died in the hospital. **
**January 2005**
**A freight train carrying chlorine gas struck a parked train killing eight people and injuring at least 200 others. **
**March 2005**
**A student shoots and kills nine people before killing himself at Red Lake High School.**
**August 2005**
**Hurricanes Katrina and Rita damage or destroy hundreds of schools and displace thousands of families, students, and teachers.**
**November 2005**
**A student shoots and kills an assistant principal in Campbell County, Tennessee.**

## Where do we want schools to be with emergency management?

## Where Do We Want to Be?

- Goal is for all school districts to have emergency management plans that:
- Address all four phases of emergency planning and cover multiple hazards
- Are practiced on a regular basis
- Are developed collaboratively with community partners and stakeholders
- Are based upon sound data and information
- Are continually reviewed and updated regularly
- Are never completed
- Are living documents!!

## What is the role of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) in emergency management?

## OSDFS Role in Emergency Management for Schools

- Following 9/11, OSDFS established the "Center for School Preparedness"
- Practical Information on Crisis Planning: A Guide for Schools and Communities
- Emergency Response and Crisis Management Grant Program

**Notes:**
1. Schools can be impacted by natural disasters, school shooting, biological and other threats

## OSDFS Role in Emergency Management for Schools

- Provide guidance and resources for schools and school districts on emergency management
- Coordinate at the Federal level with other agencies on emergency management issues
- Provide training and technical assistance to grantee, non-grantee school districts, and private schools
- Provide grant funding to schools and school districts to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from crises
- Ultimate goal is to ensure that all schools are safe and secure

## How Are We Going to Get There?

- Continue "crisis planning" as a priority
- Additional discretionary grant funds in FY 2006
- Continue to respond to crises (Project SERV)
- Continue training programs and technical assistance
- Continue to collect/disseminate best practices
- Adhere to principles of the National Incident Management System
- Continue coordination with DHS on: IIMG; Infrastructure Protection Plan; National Response Plan
- Develop system to provide field with relevant information (HSIN)

## Emergency Response and Crisis Management Grant

- Emergency Response and Crisis Management (ERCM) Grant Program
- Discretionary grant program funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools to assist with school crisis planning
- Purpose is to provide resources to local educational agencies (LEAs) to improve and enhance emergency response plans
- Since fiscal year 2003, 336 LEAs have received ERCM grants
- Another ERCM competition is scheduled for FY 2006

**Notes:**
ERCM grants are 18 months long and provide funding for schools to enhance their crisis plans, provide training for staff and partners, conduct drills, conduct vulnerability and hazards assessments, and partner with community to enhance crisis preparedness.
We anticipate that the application for FY 2006 ERCM grants will become available in May. More information will be available on this later in the training.
More information on the FY 2006 ERCM competition will be available in a session later today.

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## Resources Available to Support Emergency Management in Schools

- U.S. Department of Education Emergency Planning Web site
- www.ed.gov/emergencyplan
- Practical Information on Crisis Planning Guide
- http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/emergencyplan/crisisplanning.pdf
- Emergency Response and Crisis Management Grants (FY 2006)
- Emergency Response and Crisis Management Web cast
- http://www.kidzonline.org/ercm/

## Resources Available to Support Emergency Management in Schools

- Emergency Management for Schools Trainings
- Denver, CO: April 26th- 28th
- Pittsburgh, PA: May 15th-17th
- ERCM Focus Group
- ERCM Working Group
- Participant feedback from Denver and Pittsburgh
- Your feedback is critical
- Feedback forms will be available throughout the meeting

**Notes:**
OSDFS is in the process of standardizing our training materials on the four phases for schools
We convened a series of school emergency management "experts" from across the country in February to discuss core elements of this training.
After developing basic PPTS, we convened a working group in March to refine the presentation materials
OSDFS staff will use your feedback from this meeting and the meeting in Pittsburgh to continue to enhance and provide our training materials for schools.
Your feedback is needed and appreciated!

##  Resources Available to Support Emergency Management in Schools

- Emergency Response and Crisis Management (ERCM) Technical Assistance (TA) Center
- _[www.ercm.org](http://www.ercm.org/)_
- Presentations from previous ERCM training events
- Technical Assistance Request form
- ERCMExpress Newsletters
- Emergency Management for Schools Training events

## QUESTIONS??

## For Further Information

- Bill Modzeleski _b__[ill.modzeleski@ed.gov](mailto:ill.modzeleski@ed.gov)_
- Sara Strizzi _[sara.strizzi@ed.gov](mailto:sara.strizzi@ed.gov)_
- Tara Hill _[tara.hill@ed.gov](mailto:tara.hill@ed.gov)_
- Michelle Sinkgraven _[michelle.sinkgraven@ed.gov](mailto:michelle.sinkgraven@ed.gov)_
- _[www.ed.gov/emergencyplan](http://www.ed.gov/emergencyplan)_