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Prohibits federal funding from being used to hire, maintain, or train school-based law enforcement and instead creates a competitive Department of Education grant program to help local school districts replace officers with mental-health, trauma‑informed, and restorative supports. The bill defines covered law enforcement and other key terms, documents evidence about policing and discipline in schools, requires LEAs receiving grants to end on-campus police contracts, limits permitted and prohibited uses of grant funds, requires public reporting on arrests and surveillance, and authorizes $5 billion for the program.
The bill trades a major federal investment to replace school policing with counselors, trauma‑informed supports, and greater transparency aimed at reducing disciplinary disparities for possible short‑term safety gaps, increased local costs and administrative burdens, and tensions over local control and law‑enforcement coordination.
Students—especially those in low-income and disproportionately disciplined groups—will get substantially more counselors, psychologists, social workers, and trauma‑informed supports through a new $5 billion federal investment to build non‑punitive school safety staffing nationwide.
Families, students, and the public will gain more transparency about school discipline and policing through public, disaggregated reporting and clearer federal accounting of school policing spending.
Higher‑need districts are prioritized and marginalized students receive targeted, evidence‑based and trauma‑informed supports (including mentoring using 'credible messengers'), which aims to reduce racial, disability, and LGBTQI+ disciplinary disparities and improve educational outcomes.
Schools and students could face short‑term safety or response gaps if officers are removed or contracts terminated before alternative staff, protocols, or funding are fully in place.
Local taxpayers and districts may incur higher costs and difficult transition expenses to replace school policing with behavioral supports—federal funds may be supplemental and not cover all replacement or ongoing costs.
New reporting, compliance with detailed statutory definitions, and privacy protections will increase administrative burden and data‑management work for local education agencies.
Introduced April 8, 2025 by Ayanna Pressley · Last progress April 8, 2025