Kensington Voice

Walking buses, a playground, a bullet-resistant fence: How Kensington schools are using opioid settlement funds

Students leaving Frances E Willard Elementary School

Kensington’s Willard Elementary School is getting its first playground. It’s also getting something less whimsical: a bullet-resistant fence.

Both have an unusual funding source: drug companies that fueled the opioid crisis in the school’s backyard. Read more. 

Photo by Solmaira Valerio