Matthew McConaughey is still fighting to make America’s schools safer more than a year after a gunman killed two teachers and 19 children at Robb Elementary School in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas.
McConaughey, who was a visible and vocal advocate for the community in the aftermath of the shooting, along with his wife, Camila, has launched the Greenlights Grant Initiative to help schools across the country access funding to create safer learning environments. “My wife was out of the country,” McConaughey recalled of the Uvalde tragedy in an interview with ABC News. “She heard about the news, immediately writes me and says, ‘We got to go down there.’ She cut her trip short, flew in.
McConaughey says he was told that three months after the Uvalde shooting, 12 schools in the area had applied for government funding but none had been given any. “What are we doing?” McConaughey said. “That’s a zero percent success rate. One, way too few applications. Number two, the 12 applications, we went zero for twelve?” “The government admits that it shouldn’t be this complicated. You got 14,000 something schools,” he continued.
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