School Safety Consolidated Competitive Grant

Added to Programs No Longer Administered by the California Department of Education (CDE) on March 26, 2019.

This information is for historical purposes only and it is possible that information contained here may not be current.

Program Name:

• School Safety Consolidated Competitive Grant

Time Period:

• Funded through 2012–13
• Effective 2013–14, the School Safety Consolidated Competitive Grant program was subsumed into the local control funding formula.

Applicable Statutes/Regulations:

• California Education Code (EC) sections 41510–41514

Source of Appropriation/Budget Act Item:

• Budget Act Item 6110-248-0001

Program Description:

The School Safety Consolidated Competitive Grant consolidated into one competitive grant program funding for the following programs: Safe School Planning and Partnership Mini-grants, School Community Policing, Gang-Risk Intervention Program, Safety Plans for New Schools, School Community Violence Prevention, and Conflict Resolution. Funding was provided to school districts or county offices of education to establish programs to address school safety and violence prevention with an emphasis on gang violence prevention. School districts and county offices of education were eligible to compete for funding. A condition of spending grant funds was each school district or county office of education had a school safety plan for each of their schools.

School Safety Consolidated Competitive Grant funds were distributed through a competitive grant process to carry out one or more of the purposes of the School Safety and Violence Prevention Strategy program as well as the programs whose funding was consolidated into the School Safety Consolidated Competitive Grant; purposes included school violence prevention. Up to $400,000 of the funding was available to provide regional training in safe school planning and crisis response.

SACS Resource/Revenue Codes:

• 0000 / 8590

Flexibility:

• EC Section 42605 authorized complete flexibility for this funding for fiscal years 2008–09 through 2012–13. During those years a school district or county office of education could use funds received for any educational purpose.