Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is being asked to move funds over to counselors and prevention strategies, as a student advocacy group says the current zero-tolerance disciplinary policies do not work in the schools.
Thursday, with a cost analysis report in hand, Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE) showed that spent $51.4 million on school-based security guards last year, which was roughly 15 times what was spent on college and career coaches.
Each year, CPS spends $25 million for each of its 100 high schools to have two police officers.
Principal Joyce Kenner from Whitney Young told the Chicago Tribune that the police officers in her building keep the campus safe and they ensure the students get to and from the nearby train station
“Those police officers are my additional eyes and ears,” she said. “I absolutely need them both.”
However, the student group’s report “Failed Policies, Broken Futures,” says CPS spends millions
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