Schools or Police: In Some Cities, a Reckoning on Spending Priorities

Education Week: For years, school funding and civil rights advocates for majority black school districts have balked at how local police department spending grows while area superintendents are forced to lay off counselors, nurses, social workers, and scores of teachers.

Black children are overpoliced and undereducated already, they have argued. Why not take money from the police department and invest it in the school district?

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