Activists demand removing the NYPD from schools. De Blasio plans to give school police more money.

Chalkbeat: As protests across the country force a reckoning over police violence and city police crack down on local demonstrators, advocates are ratcheting up calls for New York City schools to sever ties with the police department.

The New York Police Department stations thousands of safety officers in city schools, an arrangement that has been in place since 1998. But after the recent killing of George Floyd, who died last week after a Minneapolis police officer leaned on his neck for nearly nine minutes, calls have grown across the country to rethink the role of police in schools.

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