Texas Awarded $2 million in STOP grants.
The Texas Education Agency has been awarded $2 million to address school violence. The first Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Act grant will go toward providing mental health training for school staff and administrators. The second STOP grant will go toward establishing a statewide training program for school threat assessment teams. The $2 million Texas award is out of a total of $70 million in awards recently announced by the U.S. Department of Justice. To read more…
Record number of registered voters.
Yesterday marked the deadline to register to vote in Texas for the November 6th general election. According to the Secretary of State, a record number of voters have registered to vote. As of Monday, the number of registered voters was at 15,698,626. To read more…
Increased readiness level for Texas State Operations Center.
Governor Abbott has ordered the Texas State Operations Center to elevate its readiness level in preparation for severe storm systems moving across Texas this week. State and partner agencies included in this response are: Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Department of Transportation, Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, Texas A&M Forest Service, Texas Military Department, Texas Department of State Health Services, American Red Cross, State Mass Care. To read more…
Only in Austin…
The 2nd and final weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival is this weekend. Missed out on last weekend? You still have another chance to catch the one and only Paul McCartney in ATX! To read more…