Learn more about replacing traditional wired glass with SAFE alternatives

SAFTIFIRST™
Order a DVD documenting how a San Francisco school eliminated the danger of accidental impact with unsafe wired glass by using clear and affordable solutions that met the highest federal impact safety standard (CPSC Cat. II) and provided additional protection from dangerous radiant heat.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Passed impact safety standard for wired glass in 1977 and then clarified exceptions to the standard in a May 2004 letter to the International Code Council. Since 2003, the International Code Council's model building codes have required that all glazing in potentially hazardous locations within educational facilities must comply with Federal Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) impact-safety standards.

Advocates for Safe Glass
Advocates for Safe Glass is a non-profit organization founded by parents of children severely injured by wired glass products used in buildings. Click here to see a letter from Dr. Philip Graitcer to Advocates for Safe Glass estimating the number of student injuries due to impact with traditional wired glass.
 

Learn more about how to use school stimulus money to make schools safer

National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF)
Offers a great description of the School Funding Stimulus package and programs:
Also offers advice and a checklist on how to make schools safer.

www.recovery.org
Set up by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as a user-friendly, public-facing website to foster greater accountability and transparency in the use of covered funds. To view news and reports about spending in the category of education spending, go to: http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/agency-summary&agency_code=91

U.S. Department of Education (ed.gov)
Working to get the ARRA money to the states and LEAs as quickly as possible.

Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI)
A nonprofit advising the Department of Education and schools about how to spend stimulus education monies to best improve schools. CEFPI is currently conducting a letter-writing campaign to urge governors to invest more of the State Fiscal Stabilization Funds on school construction and repairs.

National School Boards Association (NSBA)
Posts a Economic Stimulus Resource Center to help districts understand what the stimulus bill means: