Schools are weighing whether metal detectors can prevent increasing violence as multiple students were stabbed or brought loaded guns to schools this week.
Students returned to class at University Prep charter high school in the South Bronx Monday still reeling from the shooting Friday afternoon that claimed the life of one of their classmates as she walked home from school.
NYC task force pushes to REMOVE police from schools to make them more healing-centered and proposes paying a total of $3million to families for reviewing harmful policies
The task force, formed by Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, wants to make schools more welcoming as kids return to classrooms after the pandemic
It recommended that every school in the Big Apple ask students and their parents, as well as teachers, to review harmful school policies
It also recommended an estimated $3million budget to reward those who participate in the review process with $250 stipends
Further recommendations included removing all police officers from schools
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