mr. max schachter.heir testimonies are ones the american public needs to hear and ones that members of congress should take to heart as we go about our work. ofpecial thank you to both you for sharing your experience with us. acknowledge congressman deutsche, who does not set on this committee but he represents florida has been a champion for measures to improve school safety. i asked the consent to allow to question the witnesses at today's hearing. that went out objection, it is so ordered. i'm both of this hearing can build upon the school safety field hearing the subcommittee held last year in new jersey. the 2019, and 22 any school year as well underway and our kids are at risk in violence every day. as a parent of triplets, all is it too often i watch the news and i am terrified by what i see here. tragically school violence is taking lives of is it too many american children and educators. now 20 years since columbine high school massacre, which left 13 victims dead, our children are still incred

mr. schachter, ms.feel so fortunate to know you and proud to represent you and and utterly heartbroken by the circumstances that have brought us together. you are survivors of this horrible crisis of gun violence in america, mr. schachter, you lost your beloved alex, ms. hogg he lost friends and teachers. Ãb you turned your pain into action mr. schachter you been a fierce advocate for expanding the level of expertise in school districts and states to improve policies you become an expert in security infrastructure i knew from the first moment i spoke with you that within a short period of time you would be a national leader on keeping our schools safe. want to ask you the eagle that hr 3714 will expand the national threat assessment center by doing that, what can i do to help ensure that schools have the expertise to keep their students and staff safe. >> thank you congressman and thank you for everything you've done to protect our children you've been a great champion of that as far as the eagle back g

mr. schachter, thank you for being here.eat justice to your son's memory by looking for the right solutions to this. you answered a lot of my questions because your testimony was so exact. you mentioned the national best practices clearing and the schoolsafety.gov being a great first step but there's going to be an issue with how well we get that information out to schools. do you have any information on the best way to do that? and then ms. martinez-prather, i'd like you to answer and mr. maples as well, what's the next step after what are deemed to be pretty good next steps? pretty good solutions already. >> the first thing that we're lacking is at the end of october that website is going to go live. so there's going to be a lot of great resources on that website. it's very interactive so schools will be able to go on there, answer a series of questions to see where they are in the process of making their school safe and then that website will walk you through the process and tell you where your gaps are, where your defici