Oakland CA June 8 2020 Galvanized by the nationwide call for police reforms in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, Oakland activists are pressuring the Oakland school board to eliminate the district’s internal police force. On Wednesday, Oakland Unified School District board member Roseann Torres will reintroduce […]
Phoenix AZ June 8 2020 Following a Minneapolis school district’s decision to end its contract with the police department for on-campus officers, students are pressuring Phoenix Union High School District’s governing board to do the same. Abia Khan, who graduated from North High School this year, started a petition on change.org earlier this week asking […]
PORTLAND, Ore. June 8 2020 The moment Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler as well as Portland Schools Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero made the announcement that school resource officers (SROs) will not be on school campuses anymore, a lot of people weighed in. The news hit Officer Rick Puente hard. “It’s a little disappointing,” said Puente. “When we talk […]
Minneapolis MN June 8 2020 Student activists across the country are calling for their schools to cut ties with police departments and remove officers from campuses in response to a national uprising against police brutality. And school leaders in Minneapolis and Portland, Ore., have already taken that step. While debates over the role of police […]
Philadelphia PA June 8 2020 As the nation reels from recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless Black individuals — prompting days of protests and law enforcement clashes — thousands of students and faculty are now demanding the University end its deep-rooted ties with militarized police forces. More than 9,600 people have […]
Madison WI June 8 2020 Madison’s teachers union is shifting its stance on school-based police officers and is now advocating they be taken out of the city’s main high schools — but only if 33 additional support staff are hired. In a statement Sunday, Madison Teachers Inc. said it backs the removal of school resource […]
Sacramento CA June 7 2020 Should police officers continue to be in schools? Some major cities across the U.S. are grappling with that question. Schools in several major cities have cut or are considered cutting school resource officer positions and ending their relationships with local police departments, local news outlets report. A school resource officer […]
HAWTHORNE NJ June 7 2020 — A school security guard has been suspended from duty for allegedly posting derogatory remarks about the Black Lives Matter crusade and its supporters to his personal Facebook page. Scott Verrone, 55, a retired police officer, was removed from his $25-per-hour post at the high school after declaring the movement “nothing […]
New York NY June 7 2020 As protests across the country force a reckoning over police violence and city police crack down on local demonstrators, advocates are ratcheting up calls for New York City schools to sever ties with the police department. The New York Police Department stations thousands of safety officers in city schools, […]
New York City NY June 7 2020 Hundreds of educrats in the city Department of Education’s central office have signed a letter to Chancellor Richard Carranza urging schools to cut ties with the NYPD. The letter urges the removal of unarmed school safety agents who guard students and staff from NYPD control, and retraining them as […]