The UChicago Consortium on School Research just issued a report titled Removing Police Officers from Chicago Schools.
Here’s a quick summary:
SRO removal was significantly related to having fewer high-level discipline infractions.
While high-level discipline infractions rose districtwide from 2018–19 to 2022–23, schools that had fully removed SROs did not have similar increases in high-level discipline infractions; their rates remained relatively flat.
SRO removal was not related to changes over time in:
Student Survey reports of perception of physical safety or student-teacher trust.
Teacher survey reports of perception of physical safety.
I’m adding this info to TEACHING RESOURCES ABOUT IF POLICE SHOULD BE IN SCHOOLS.
The UChicago Consortium on School Research just issued a report titled Removing Police Officers from Chicago Schools. Here’s a quick summary: SRO removal was significantly related to having fewer high-level discipline infractions. While high-level discipline infractions rose districtwide from 2018–19 to 2022–23, schools that had fully removed SROs did not have similar increases in research studies Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…