Sentences with phrase «resource officers»

- The budget proposal would allocate $ 130 million to strengthen school safety, including hiring more nurses and school resource officers and upgrading facilities to make them more secure.

Educators have allowed school resource officers (sworn law enforcement officers) and zero - tolerance policies to make many schools feel like dysfunctional jails.

Memorandum of Understanding — School Resource Officers with language concerning new gang awareness initiative

The school - to - prison pipeline is also linked to the growth of police assigned to work in schools — known euphemistically as «school resource officers.»

«In some places, school resource officers have become the de facto disciplinarians in school settings,» said Nekima Levy - Pounds, a professor of law at the University of St. Thomas and the president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP.

I'm angry that everyone thinks the solution to this is having more school resource officers.

And the Department of Justice would receive $ 440 million for community policing, a portion of which could be used to hire school mental health professionals and school resource officers.

By ensuring federal civil rights protections, offering alternatives to exclusionary discipline and providing useful information to school resource officers, we can keep America's young people safe and on the right path.»

Professionals such as school social workers and school resource officers are collaborating with school principals in increasing and changing ways.

The plan allocates another $ 50 million on school nurses, social workers, psychologists and school resource officers, areas where experts say North Carolina has failed to keep pace with enrollment growth.

Oklahoma school resource officers can carry firearms already, but the new bill expands the right to additional school staff.

The plan suggests launching a new Comprehensive School Safety program to put up to 1,000 additional school resource officers and mental health professionals in schools and support other critical investments in student safety.

Here are some of the most common reasons teachers throughout Metro Milwaukee cited for leaving their posts, according to a survey of human resource officers at school districts in the Public Policy Forum study:

Minneapolis also will be putting its school resource officers (SROs) in «soft uniform» polo shirts rather than traditional uniforms, a practice St. Paul already has put in place.

The session will help teachers, student support staff, administrators, school resource officers and others who work in secondary schools to examine how they can each use protocols and practices that contribute to a positive climate and more optimal conditions for learning.

Kathy Sher of the American Civil Liberties Union told lawmakers that while the bill is well - intentioned, putting guns in schools in the hands of school resource officers or anyone else will make schools less safe, not more so.

ASBJ Article: «Keeping up to keep students safe,» examines the latest trends in school safety, touching on essential training, technology choices, the role of School Resource Officers, and evaluating risks.

But, Scheffel said the most important tool is the relationships school resource officers build with the students.

They also point to the troubling facts in the RealClear report, including that School Resource Officers were directed by the local police department not to arrest students, even for certain felonies.

Take a close look at the agreements between schools and law enforcement agencies to make sure that police and school resource officers (SROs) are not gathering information for ICE, or coming to campus to talk to students and potentially asking questions about their or their family's immigration status, which would violate the California Values Act.

The district has also requested $ 300,000 to replace five School Resource Officers (SROs) previously provided by the city.

The budget provides $ 7 million to increase the state allotment for school resource officers from $ 35,000 to $ 50,000 per high school, designed to cover the actual cost of hiring armed officers to patrol those schools.

-- Mary Jo Ferguson, 2008 Teacher of the Year, Ohio School Resource Officers Association (OSROA), Lorain City Schools, Lorain, OH

School board members were far more supportive of other ideas in the survey, such as increasing funding for mental health services, school counselors, and school resource officers.

Along with zero tolerance policies schools often installed metal detectors and began hiring school «resource officers,» who are most often off - duty police officers.

-- National Association of School Psychologists & National Association of School Resource Officers

A study by Education Week found that school resource officers, who essentially function as law enforcement personnel, are more likely to be deployed on campuses with large numbers of black students.

Although the law has not yet been fully implemented, officials in school districts with large immigration populations have questioned the role of school resource officers who work in the schools but operate under the direction of law enforcement agencies.

Critics of that impulsive response, which has been in high gear nationwide since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in December, acknowledge the concern for student and staff safety that drives the addition of school resource officers, as such police are often known.

Programs at the district level often involve redefining how teachers and school resource officers (SROs) interact with students.

The district accelerated efforts to arm school resource officers within days of the Newtown, Conn., school shootings.

School resource officers, additional guidance counselors, and professional development for educators can help schools head off tragedies such as the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last December, witnesses told members of the House Education and the Workforce Committee at a recent hearing last week on school safety issues.

Phillip A. Bailey is the new president of the St. Paul, Minn. - based National Association of School Resource Officers.

School Resource Officers Seeing Results A survey of almost 700 school resource officers includes sobering statistics about the high number of crimes and assaults prevented by school - based police officers.

School resource officers need the tools to strike a balance between their job of keeping schools safe and the privacy rights of students, a white paper by the American Civil Liberties Union says.

Only more recently have researchers begun to surface the numbers of black girls who are subject to severe disciplinary measures in schools, including by school resource officers.

The case raises questions about routine cooperation between police and school officials, especially in an era when many police departments assign school resource officers to campuses.

In four videos, education researchers discuss their perspectives on the criminalizing of black girls in American schools, including by school resource officers.

«I would welcome the president to come to my school in Baltimore County, Maryland, and see for himself,» president of the National Association of School Resource Officers tells TheWrap

They follow security guards and school resource officers.

Another alarming trend, he says, is the growing presence of «school resource officers»: police officers assigned to schools.

«I want to thank Senator Gallivan for his efforts in securing funding for two School Resource Officers,» said Sheriff Howard.

The sophomore lawmaker also broke with the president on arming teachers — «I don't support the mandatory arming of teachers,» she said — but left the door open to supporting armed resource officers at North Country public schools.

Frank McNamara and Michael Paternostro aren't spending any time together in their new roles as school resource officers for Grand Island.

Restore community funding for youth and school resource officers for stronger school community partnerships;

The debate got most heated over a bill to create a «Guardians for Schools» license plate to raise money to help pay for school resource officers.

«There are probably many things we could do to make our schools safer, including having more trained law enforcement personnel in our schools as resource officers, but the Lieutenant Governor does not believe that we should require other school personnel to be armed,» Ibbie Hedrick, deputy chief of staff for Bolling, said via e-mail.

«School resource officers carrying weapons, sure, but, it's more than the weapon, it's the relationship,» says Thomas.

The Senate passed three school safety measures — half of school lock down drills must be «active shooter» drills, provide for school resource officers at schools outside New York City and NYPD officers at City schools — that all enjoy strong bipartisan support of between 69 and 78 percent,» Greenberg said.

School resource officers (SROs) provide an armed police presence while building relationships with the school community.