Atualização do abaixo-assinadoNever Again! Put Our Children's Safety First. Sign Avonte's Law, the "Audible Alarms Bill".City Council stalls ‘Avonte’s Law’ that requires school door alarms

New York City Parents Union
29 de mai. de 2014
The City Council is dragging its feet in enacting a law that would require alarms on the exits of public schools to prevent tragedies like the disappearance and death of Avonte Oquendo, The Post has learned.
Avonte’s Law has the support of 46 of the council’s 51 members but has been languishing in the Education Committee for two months.
Mayor de Blasio’s administration has also raised objections.
“I don’t think the department is going to support that bill,” Deputy Schools Chancellor Kathleen Grimm said at a March 18 hearing on the mayor’s preliminary budget.
“We do not think it’s a prudent use of funds to do every single door. Children are going to walk out of our buildings unless we know we have totally trained adults in the building who know what the procedures are.”
The delay has outraged parents.
Read the full article at:
http://nypost.com/2014/05/27/city-council-stalling-on-law-to-install-alarms-on-school-doors/
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