A northwestern Indiana middle school student faces a charge of possessing a destructive device after two improvised explosive devices were found inside a backpack, authorities said.

No shots were fired and no gun was found after a room-by-room search of Lake Central High School, which was on lockdown for most of the day on Wednesday.

The awards will allow the board to fund projects proposed by 392 schools in their applications to the Secured School Safety Grant program.

The superintendent of the Washington Township Schools districts is asking for the community’s help to end violence after a North Central High School student was stabbed with a knife by another student on the campus Wednesday morning.

Officers from several departments were conducting a room-by-room search at Lake Central High School after being called about 10 a.m.

The bill requires training in weapons, legal ramifications, 911 calls and a mental health evaluation. It also requires 16 hours of renewal training each year.

The bill would require educators and staff who carry guns in school to complete 40 hours of training in a variety of areas, including emergency medical preparation, legal ramifications, and psychological assessment.

More districts are hiring law enforcement to increase security in schools and can use state funding to do so, but lawmakers are debating what sort of training officers need before working around students.

A bill up for passage in the Senate this week would require schools, beginning in 2021, to have a relationship with a mental health care provider before getting school safety dollars.

Changes made to Indiana's school safety grant program resulted in some school districts seeing funding cut in half as others are receiving double last year's money.