Partner Charles B. McKenna co-authored an article with John Farmer Jr., director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, in The Hill on June 1, 2022. In the opinion piece, titled ” We Should Treat Schools as Critical Infrastructure,” they suggest that it’s “time to recognize that our schools amount to perhaps the most critical infrastructure because they house our most precious resource: children. But they are also perhaps the softest targets available for those who wish to act out violently. As we contemplate spending trillions of dollars on infrastructure, we should dedicate significant resources to hardening the targets that our schools have become, even to the point of replacing them.”
In the piece, Charlie and John state that “[s]omething concrete must be done while the talking heads argue and keep reforms, whatever they may be, in check.” They further maintain that, “because the security need is so acute, and the loss of young life so tragic and unnecessary, an agreement to treat schools as critical infrastructure and harden them as targets should be achievable on a bipartisan basis.”
Read the full piece at The Hill.
