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Michigan FY 2026-27 School Safety Funding

Michigan’s FY 2026–27 education budget creates new opportunities for schools to strengthen emergency response and school safety. Section 31aa includes three funding pathways:

• $310 million for mental health and school safety
• $25 million dedicated to school safety technology
• $20 million for community violence intervention

For districts evaluating emergency-response technology, the $25 million school-safety technology allocation is the most direct opportunity.

$25 Million Dedicated to School Safety Technology

The dedicated technology funding supports systems designed to improve real-time coordination among schools, law enforcement, 9-1-1 personnel, and first responders, including mobile panic-alert capability and integration with local public-safety answering points.

How CENTEGIX Supports Emergency Response

The CENTEGIX Safety Platform® supports:

• Wearable mobile panic-button activation.
• Precise room- and floor-level location.
• Campuswide alerts and notifications.
• Digital mapping and responder information.
• Coordination with local 9-1-1 and public-safety partners.
• Installation, testing, training, and implementation.

Three Questions Every Michigan District Should Ask

• 1. What is our district’s FY 2026–27 Section 31aa allocation?
• 2. How much of that allocation has already been committed?
• 3. Who controls the school-safety, technology, procurement, and board-approval processes?

Answering these questions early can help districts build a coordinated funding and implementation plan.

Plan Your FY 2026–27 School Safety Investment

CENTEGIX can help districts assess emergency-response needs, align technology with available funding, coordinate with public-safety partners, and plan procurement and implementation.

FAQs

Who is eligible for Section 31aa funding?

• Eligible entities include local school districts and public school academies, intermediate school districts, eligible nonpublic schools, and the Michigan Schools for the Deaf and Blind.

What can the broader $310 million funding support?

• Subject to final state guidance and local approval, funding may support student mental health and school-safety priorities including emergency-response systems, safety technology, emergency planning, crisis communication, training, mapping, integration, and coordination with first responders.

What is the $20 million community violence intervention funding?

• This funding supports broader youth-violence prevention and intervention strategies. In qualifying communities, CENTEGIX may serve as emergency-response and communication infrastructure within a broader district and community partnership.

What should districts know about the FY 2026–27 process?

• MDE has not yet published the complete FY 2026–27 participation process or deadlines. Districts should confirm allocations, participation requirements, reporting obligations, and deadlines as updated guidance is released.

What should districts do now?

• Begin planning early for funding decisions, procurement, board approval, public-safety coordination, installation, integration, testing, and staff training.

CENTEGIX & I Love U Guys Foundation: Aligned for Safer Schools

Michigan has taken an important step toward safer, more coordinated emergency response by requiring all public and nonpublic schools to implement the Standard Response Protocol (SRP) by the start of the 2026–27 school year. SRP, developed by the I Love U Guys Foundation, creates shared, plain-language actions that students, staff, and first responders can follow without confusion, no matter the emergency. The required SRP actions are Hold, Secure, Lockdown, Evacuate, and Shelter, each paired with clear directives that standardize what to do and what to say in a crisis.

CENTEGIX is aligned with the I Love U Guys Foundation’s mission and the SRP framework because our solutions are built to support rapid, reliable response. SRP works best when the right action can be initiated immediately and communicated clearly across a campus—and that’s exactly what CENTEGIX enables. With one-button activation and real-time, campus-wide notification, our platform helps schools quickly initiate the appropriate SRP response and deliver consistent language to staff, students, and responders. This strengthens training, improves drill effectiveness, and helps ensure that when seconds matter, everyone is operating from the same playbook Michigan now requires.

As districts prepare for the 2026–27 deadline, CENTEGIX offers a practical path to SRP readiness: helping schools operationalize the five actions through rapid alerting and notification, clear incident communication, and coordinated response across onsite teams and first responders. Whether the situation calls for a Hold in the classroom, a Secure perimeter, a Lockdown, an Evacuate with a specified location, or a Shelter directive, CENTEGIX supports the speed, clarity, and coordination SRP is designed to deliver. We’re honored to stand with Michigan schools and the I Love U Guys Foundation to make standardized, life-saving response a daily reality, not just a policy requirement.

Connect with a CENTEGIX specialist today to make sure your district has met the requirements for SRP readiness.

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