Pearland ISD campuses passed a recent surprise safety audit by the state.
“An auditor comes in, they try to access the building,” Superintendent Larry Berger told board members. “They go through the front door.
They ask to see the principal. They introduced themselves and asked to see the weekly audit checklist that every campus is required to do and walk around with the principal to every exterior door and check them to make sure they are all locked and secure.”
One of those mandates is having 100 percent emergency response radio coverage inside each building.
“We have to grid-test every one of our buildings to determine what the emergency response radio coverage is inside, and where there are deficiencies below the threshold, we have to put in a booster system,” Berger said. “Those are very expensive to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars per campus.”
