HARRISBURG — Amid a rise of violent attacks against the Jewish community, students and staff members at Jewish day schools in the same neighborhood as the Pittsburgh synagogue that was the site of October’s mass shooting are asking state lawmakers for help paying for security.

They went to the Capitol on Tuesday, along with delegations from Jewish schools in other cities around the state, to meet with lawmakers about including non-public schools in a year-old $60 million school security grant program.

Pennsylvania began a $10 million school safety grant program after the 2012 mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. It then created a new, $60 million school and community security grant program after last year’s mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., but private schools did not have access to the grants.

Heightened security has been in place at many Jewish day schools in recent years. But parents and staff at Jewish day schools say they are more alarmed now in the wake of the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and the shooting at Poway Chabad synagogue near San Diego on the last day of the Jewish holiday of Passover.