If schools don’t overhaul discipline, ‘teachers will still be calling the police on our Black students’
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
School police “are often increasingly serving that role as school disciplinarian,” she said. In a white paper she co-authored this year, Mooney cited research that connected officers hired through the federal “COPS in Schools” program to a reduction — about 1 percent to 2 percent — in disruptive criminal incidents on campus.
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