Here is the demand on "defunding" the cops in the schools, that is put
clearly in posting from today. They still want the cops in the schools,
just shift the funding and supervision to the NYCDOE, the way it was before
Giuliani. We need to make this clear to educators. This is not "cops out
of the schools" by a longshot.
Posting on NYCoRE list, from Rosie Fasciela, Black Lives Matter.edu
The resolution also fails to address the role of School Safety Agents in
schools, which are currently employed, trained, and supervised by the NYPD.
There is widespread support among teachers, students, and even the Panel
for Educational Policy* to, at the very least, move SSAs from the NYPD to
the DOE*. The UFT should be advocating on our behalf for funds to be
directed towards counseling and restorative justice, not policing!
