As part of its promise to the state to improve school safety, the Boston Public Schools and the city commissioned an audit. The result is a report by the Council for the Great City Schools which weighs the re-establishment of an internal police department.
its efforts instead around “safety specialists,” overseen by its Office of Safety Services, and limited information sharing with the Boston Police Department.with state education officials this summer, BPS and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu agreed to improve school safety, in part by establishing a rapid-response system for school-based incidents and commissioning the audit that led to this report., the full text of the report on school safety was withheld.
The council report suggests rolling back some of the district’s recent changes, like when it calls for a new agreement for sharing information with the police. Some parents pushed back on the broad outlines of the report — like Eric Esteves of Roxbury, who said, “More police in schools is not the answer, full stop.”
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