Ron DeSantis: “Since 2019, we've invested $3.1 billion on student safety.”

“And we worked with the legislature and we implemented the most far reaching school safety program anywhere in the country. Just Since 2019, we've invested $3.1 billion on student safety. And we can. We created the Office of Safe Schools within the Florida Department of Education to provide training and support for our schools with monitoring and enforcement authority.” (01:56–02:06)

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