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It's time for the #LAUSD Board of Education's Committee of the Whole Meeting!
The item on the agenda that jumped out at me today? Item #5: the School Safety Task Force Report
Here's a preview I wrote for @LAist: https://laist.com/latest/post/20200929/lausd-school-police-budget-cuts
The item on the agenda that jumped out at me today? Item #5: the School Safety Task Force Report
Here's a preview I wrote for @LAist: https://laist.com/latest/post/20200929/lausd-school-police-budget-cuts
I'll try to tweet updates from the #LAUSD Board of Ed meeting while also juggling the LA County reopening waivers news today.
Livestream should be here: http://lausd.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=18
& as always, I'd love to hear your thoughts! Feel free to tweet, DM, or email me your reactions.
Livestream should be here: http://lausd.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=18
& as always, I'd love to hear your thoughts! Feel free to tweet, DM, or email me your reactions.
(For what it's worth - don't know if anyone else had this problem - but the livestream wasn't working for me until just now. Looks like we're joining the meeting already in progress).
Local District Central Superintendent and School Safety Task Force member Roberto A. Martinez says the task force will send survey to all #LAUSD high school students for their feedback. ( @LA_StudentsDsrv had called out the district for not including students on the task force).
Martinez is now going over the potential cuts to the @LASchoolPolice.
In June, the board narrowly passed a $25 million cut from the LASPD. That $, per the resolution, is supposed to be reallocated w/ focus on "schools w/ the highest concentration of African American students."
In June, the board narrowly passed a $25 million cut from the LASPD. That $, per the resolution, is supposed to be reallocated w/ focus on "schools w/ the highest concentration of African American students."
The proposed cuts aren't new. We saw those draft plans earlier this month.
But this is the first time the #LAUSD board is going to discuss how the former school police funds could be spent instead. Some ideas, from the slides:
But this is the first time the #LAUSD board is going to discuss how the former school police funds could be spent instead. Some ideas, from the slides:
Now, a presentation from #LAUSD's Independent Analysis Unit on drive times.
The research question? "Where can services be located optimally in the District?"
One way this info could be applied: if #LAUSD school police are removed from campuses & are only responding on patrol.
The research question? "Where can services be located optimally in the District?"
One way this info could be applied: if #LAUSD school police are removed from campuses & are only responding on patrol.
The @LASchools Board of Education Meeting livestream is having some technical difficulties, so I don't know if I'll be able to keep livetweeting...
I'll come back to this thread with a summary of the #LAUSD board members' discussion after the fact.
I'll come back to this thread with a summary of the #LAUSD board members' discussion after the fact.
As promised, I'm coming back to this thread with my summary! You can read it in today's @LAist: https://laist.com/latest/post/20201006/los_angeles_school_police_cuts_three_months_later
