By Kalyn Belsha, Chalkbeat, June 9, 2020
Last week, as widespread protests continued over the police killing of George Floyd, the Minneapolis school board voted unanimously to end its contract with the local police department.
Since then, school officials elsewhere have moved in a similar direction. A majority of Denver school board members say they’ll support a measure to remove police from the district’s schools by the end of the year. And the superintendent of Portland’s public schools has said he will discontinue his district’s school police program.
That group could grow as students, educators, and activists across the country — from Seattle to Chicago to Houston to New York City — put pressure on their own school districts to do the same.
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