Bill would require school Districts to train teachers to 'stop the bleed'

A bill filed in Austin would require every school district and open-enrollment charter school to create a bleeding control program and place bleeding control kits in their schools by Jan. 1, 2020. Some school districts are already providing the training. This story covers a recent training session conducted by UTMB’s Diana Grimm-Mapp at Dickinson ISD’s Hughes Road Elementary School. “We’ve always been able to provide it, but getting schools on board to believe it’s important, to accept this training, has been challenging,” Grimm-Mapp said. [See the attached file for the full text of the story.]