1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Promoting Resource Officers Together for Exceptionally Critical Targets with Key Investments in Districts and Schools Act of 2018 or the PROTECT KIDS Act . 2. Grants for the hiring and training of school resource officers (a) Establishment The Attorney General may establish a five-year pilot program to make grants to local educational agencies to enter into partnerships with local law enforcement agencies for the hiring of school resource officers to operate in and around elementary schools and secondary schools. (b) Application requirement A grant may be made under subsection (a) if a local educational agency submits an application to the Attorney General at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Attorney General may require. The application shall include a list of elementary schools or secondary schools in the jurisdiction of the local educational agency— (1) that seek to use a school resource officer; (2) at which no school resource is deployed at the time of the application; and (3) to which a school resource officer is expected to be deployed using a grant. (c) Preferential consideration of certain applications In making grants under subsection (a), the Attorney general may give preferential consideration, where feasible, to local educational agencies determined by the Secretary of Education to have a student population exceeding 65,000 in the jurisdiction of such local educational agency as of January 1, 2018. (d) Amount of grant The amount of a grant under this section may not exceed $10,000,000 for each fiscal year. (e) Matching funds The Attorney General may make a grant under subsection (a) only if the applicant for the grant agrees to match, from funds provided from State or local government sources, a cash amount equal to 100 percent of the grant made available by the Attorney General. (f) Definitions In this Act: (1) Elementary school; secondary school