Giving Compass' Take:

• In response to the Santa Fe High School Shooting, Texas Governor Greg Abbott released a 40-page report on improving school safety that includes a range of changes from proposed legislation to optional interventions for schools. 

• Is this plan the most effective way too increase student safety? How can philanthropists help research and implementation of effective school safety solutions? 

• Learn about a groundbreaking school safety study that is currently underway. 

Gov. Greg Abbott is asking for more armed teachers, heightened security presence on campuses and better identification of troubled students to make Texans safer as the nation grapples with a terrifying drumbeat of school shootings.

The governor released a 40-page school and firearm safety action plan May 30th at Dallas Independent School District, recommendations that come with more than $100 million in grant money and other matching funds to help school districts afford the changes and upgrades. The plan also includes proposed changes to state law.

The governor's plan, much of which was developed over the Memorial Day weekend, also includes a gun lock giveaway and media strategy to encourage people to lock up their firearms, a school safety app, new alarms specifically to sound for active-shooter events and metal detectors.

While the recommendations are optional, Abbott said he expects all school districts to boost personnel to show a greater law enforcement presence in their schools and figure out how to increase access to mental health programs.

Much of the plan was born out of three days of roundtable discussions with survivors from the Santa Fe school rampage and a church shooting in Sutherland Springs, mental health experts, law enforcement personnel, and educators, among others, Abbott said.

Read the full article about Gov. Greg Abbot's school safety plan by Andrea Zelinski and Mike Ward at Governing.