Short threat on Minneapolis. This is just one very small piece of this nationally important story, but important for those of us in K-12: the city school board is moving to end its contract with the police department. https://twitter.com/JoshPauly/status/1266401854100922370">https://twitter.com/JoshPauly...

This would presumably also cover the school resource officers or SROs that are hired for security purposes in its schools. (Sometimes what SROs are actually supposed to do on a day-to-day basis is not very clear in their MOUs). https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/07/03/school-police-operations-to-get-an-overhaul.html">https://www.edweek.org/ew/articl...

Tension over discipline policies, racial disparities, student conduct and the role of SROs in school policy have been percolating in the state for some time, as my colleague Darrel reported a few years ago. ... https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/02/01/a-fight-to-build-trust-with-school.html">https://www.edweek.org/ew/articl...

... even as the role of SROs in school safety has become more heavily political in the wake of the 2017 school shootings, and as data show that districts are hiring more of them. https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/07/25/more-schools-are-reporting-serious-violence-and.html">https://www.edweek.org/ew/articl...

So now I want to know: What will this mean for other such arrangements? Will other districts rethink their contacts with police? Will they move to their own in-house police force (some big districts use those)?

Note, also, that activists in the twin cities have long called for changes to school policing, and that they are occurring under these circumstances isn& #39;t lost on them. https://twitter.com/SaidaRunThis/status/1266424435998814208">https://twitter.com/SaidaRunT...