The UChicago Consortium on School Research just issued a report titled Removing Police Officers from Chicago Schools.

Here’s a quick summary:

SRO removal was significantly related to having fewer high-level discipline infractions.

While high-level discipline infractions rose districtwide from 2018–19 to 2022–23, schools that had fully removed SROs did not have similar increases in high-level discipline infractions; their rates remained relatively flat.

SRO removal was not related to changes over time in:

Student Survey reports of perception of physical safety or student-teacher trust.

Teacher survey reports of perception of physical safety.

 

I’m adding this info to TEACHING RESOURCES ABOUT IF POLICE SHOULD BE IN SCHOOLS.