Budget Eliminates Emergency Grants; Districts Regroup

While working on her doctoral dissertation, Karen Z. Schulte learned Columbine High School had well-developed plans to handle crises—before the massacre.

But the Colorado school had never tested them. “I thought, ‘I don’t want to be in the same boat,’ ” she said.

Now, as superintendent of the 10,000-student Janesville district in Wisconsin, Ms. Schulte has a grant from the federal government that paid for training school employees in how to...