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Local advocates and unions say the latest violence underscores the need for more safety agents in public schools citywide
An intruder who tried to attack a teacher at a public elementary school in the Bronx ended up slashing a "heroic" on-duty school safety agent who intervened and thwarted the attack, Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday. One suspect is in custody.
The agent was taken to a hospital after being slashed behind the ear at PS 69, Journey Prep School, on Thieriot Avenue around 7:40 a.m. The agent is expected to be OK.
The extremists are once again calling on the NYC Council to eliminate SSA positions and open our schools to guns, weapons and criminals.
According to the group, “the City plans to hire 1000 more school safety agents, prioritizing policing over student learning and wellbeing. Mayor Adams said his budget is “focused on equity, safety, and justice.” But this proposed budget continues the legacy of disinvestment and criminalization of students of color.”
Local 237 will continue to fight these dangerous proposals.
Two Bronx teenagers were caught in their schoolyard handling a loaded gun Tuesday afternoon, police said.
The 16- and 17-year-old students were spotted by school safety agents passing the tan-colored gun back and forth just after noon outside Bronx Mott Hall school in Claremont, school safety sources said.
Each teen claimed the gun belonged to the other, and both were taken into custody, police said.
NEW YORK -- After two months on the job, new Schools Chancellor David Banks is offering harsh criticism of the Department of Education.
On Wednesday, he laid out a new path for ending bureaucracy, equipping all students with a career path to the middle class, and improving school safety.
As CBS2's Marcia Kramer reported, the chancellor wants to hire 1,000 new school safety agents to deal with a dramatic increase in weapons brought to class.
The new budget proposal from Mayor Adams may have put the final nail in the coffin of a long-stalled plan to transfer control of the city’s school safety agents from the NYPD to the Education Department.
Gregory Floyd, the president of Teamsters Local 237, the union representing school safety agents, who has vehemently opposed the transfer from the start, said “the proposed movement of School Safety Agents from NYPD supervision to the DOE was the mayor’s decision. We think he’s made the right one.”
