Hundreds of employees working at the city Department of Education’s Central Office called on the Schools Chancellor to end the Police Department’s oversight of School Safety Agents, but the head of the union that represents the Agents cautioned that the change would do more harm than good.
As school boards around the country such as Chicago and Denver weigh cutting ties with police in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man in Minnesota, a coalition of DOE staff members urged Chancellor Richard Carranza to remove School Safety Agents from NYPD control.
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