School news: Week of Dec. 9
Bethel Park Lions will award the $5,000 George Meyer Scholarship to a deserving Bethel Park High School senior in the spring of 2019. Applications are available at the counselor’s office at the high school.
BP safety grants
Bethel Park School District recently received three school safety grants in a combined amount of $85,000.
The District was awarded $40,000 from the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Office for Safe Schools 2018-19 grant program, which will be used to offset the salaries of the district’s school police officers. The district also received an additional $20,000 for year two of the 2017-2018 Safe Schools grant, to also be used toward school police salaries.
Additionally, the district received $25,000 from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency’s School Safety and Security Committee, which will be used for the purchase of security-related technology and equipment.
Bethel Park School District employs four full-time police officers and one part-time school resource officer, who is a member of the Bethel Park Police Department.