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Recommendations 3
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R3SCOE Should consider assigning personnel to be responsible for making sure our schools are in compliance with State regulations on school disaster preparedness. For many years, the Sonoma County Office of Education has assigned and funded a director for Safe Schools. This office provides two trainings a year open to all county schools on developing safe school plans and developing school crisis response plans. This position assists individual districts as requested. The California Education Code Section 32281 (a) does not require the Sonoma County Office of Education to ensure that school districts have safe school plans. This code section requires that each school district and county office develop safe school plans for the schools sites they respectively operate.
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R4SCOE should act as facilitator for disaster preparedness for schools within the Sonoma County Region. This role should include financial help in providing funding for substitute teachers so that classroom teachers can participate in training programs. During the three year period, 2004-05 through 2006-07, the Sonoma County Office of Education was the lead agency for a three year United States Department of Education project, SchoolGuard, which was designed to improve emergency preparedness and crisis response in Sonoma County Schools. The Sonoma County Office of Education worked cooperatively with the Redwood Empire Schools Insurance Group (RESIG) to accomplish the goals of the project. With the difficulties of the current State economy, SCOE is not in a position to provide financial assistance to districts for substitutes for classroom teacher training, nor is this a SCOE responsibility. As members of Redwood Empire School Insurance Group (RESIG) all districts are eligible to participate in the Emergency Services Program that RESIG provides. There is some funding available through the RESIG program for substitutes and/or overtime for any school employee to attend emergency preparedness training.
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R6SCOE, Superintendents and Principals must consider disaster preparedness a top priority. The Sonoma County Office of Education, district superintendents and principals do consider disaster preparedness a top priority. School campus safety and security is a top priority of school board members, administrators, teachers, and classified staff across Sonoma County, as it is for the parents of the students in our schools. As members of the Redwood Empire School Insurance Group (RESIG), in May 2007, Sonoma County School Districts voted unanimously to add a surcharge to each district's property and liability insurance premium to fund the coordination of emergency preparedness activities. These activities are being coordinated through RESIG for all districts in the county. 8/19/08
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