What Education Leaders Need to Know about School Policing

by Harold Jordan and Ghadah Makoshi

Interactions between young people and police don’t occur just on the streets of America. They are happening in our nation’s K-12 schools. Today, some 51% of all public schools have sworn law enforcement officers, 91% of whom carry firearms.

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