in the parking lot of Garfield High School. The mayor said the initial rollout of this first-of-its-kind plan will focus onThe $14.55 million in investments for Seattle Public Schools students will be used in a multi-tiered approach with help from community groups and Seattle police. This includes deploying more police patrols around the school campuses, plus hiring more school counselors and security officers to be on school property.
They'll also expand partnerships on existing programs like Safe Passageways that focus on case management for students and their families, and gun violence prevention. Murphy-Paine's cousin, Ray Proctor-Mills, Jr. is an incoming senior at Rainier Beach High School. He told KOMO News that support from the Safe Passage team on campus has helped him through his grief.
"It can be from putting me in programs to putting money in my pocket through stipends through programs and it can just be everything: sitting down talking. It’s helping me," he explained.Harrell said the city and school district came up with the total dollar figure through months of crunching numbers and talking with students about their needs, adding that this is an evolving program and there could be even more investments down the road.
Harrell said to measure the program’s success, officials will review data including graduation rates, the number of shots fired and firearms recovered, and one of the most important measures, he said, is feedback from students.