Lowell Area Schools plans to hire their new SRO for the upcoming school year.
LOWELL, Mich. — West Michigan school districts say they’re getting new school resource officers, or SROs, after the state announced $25 million in security funding for education.
More than two dozen school districts in the area are getting part of the funding, and Lowell Area Schools plans to hire their new SRO for the upcoming school year.
“It’s certainly a positive thing,” Superintendent Nate Fowler says.
The district will now have two school resource officers.
“Primarily, one officer would have duties at the high school, one officer would have duties at the middle school, and that would be home base for each of those officers,” Fowler says.
He adds that they would work together to support the elementary schools, as well.
“We’re a large district, we cover 135 square miles,” Fowler says. “And it’s unique too, because we have schools that are within the City of Lowell, and we …