Chicago Public Schools Principals Take Issue With Board's Plan To Remove Police Officers

By Tara Molina, CBS Chicago

January 5, 2024

CHICAGO (CBS) -- On the same day a teenage shooter walked into an Iowa school, killed one student, and wounded five other people, there is a push to remove school resource officers from Chicago public schools.

Discussions about removing police officers from schools go back years, but the decision had been left to individual schools. Now, administrators say Chicago's school board is pushing to take away the choice, and all the officers.

Of the 40 high schools that voted on the question of resource officers during the present school year, 39 voted to keep police officers in their schools. Principals are now pushing back and wondering why the decision isn't going to remain theirs.

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