Webster County Schools has received a significant boost in its efforts to enhance student and staff safety, thanks to a newly awarded grant aimed at expanding the availability of life-saving Automated External Defibrillators across its campuses.
School officials announced last week that the Kentucky AED Grant Award provides Webster County Schools with $16,000 to assist with purchasing eight new AED devices, one additional AED for each school campus, one for the maintenance building, and one floater device for the transportation department to use for field trips. They said the eight AEDs awarded will supplement the more than 20 already placed in their facilities.
In 2024, officials said Kentucky’s General Assembly allocated funding to purchase Automated External Defibrillators, as found in House Bill 1 to increase the number of functional devices across the Commonwealth in case of cardiac arrest emergencies on school property.
