{"id":12440,"date":"2024-08-29T21:29:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T21:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12440"},"modified":"2024-08-29T21:57:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T21:57:46","slug":"sen-john-jagler-frustrated-with-no-officers-in-milwaukee-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12440","title":{"rendered":"Sen. John Jagler Frustrated With NO Officers in Milwaukee Public Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/republican-senator-frustrated-with-no-officers-in-mps\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Milwaukee<\/p>\n

(The Center Square) \u2013 State Sen. John Jagler is frustrated Milwaukee Public Schools seems to be ignoring the state law that requires police officers in the city\u2019s schools. But, he doesn\u2019t expect any changes either.<\/p>\n

Jagler, R-Watertown, last week wrote a letter to the MPS board, asking when the city\u2019s schools plan to follow the law and return school resource officers to their buildings.<\/p>\n

Republican lawmakers included the school resource officer in 2023\u2019s shared revenue deal. It required MPS to add 25 officers by Jan. 1. That didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, I know it didn’t get done fast enough last year. And to be honest, I kind of, to be fair, just kind of assumed it would be done in August of this year,\u201d Jagler said on News Talk 1130 WISN on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Jagler said he realized that Milwaukee Public Schools may never return the officers to their buildings after hearing MPS school board vice president Jilly Gokalghandi dismiss a question about officers in schools during a question-and-answer session last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re going to continue to focus on restorative justice as the main lever of serving our kids,\u201d Gokalghandi said. \u201cSo that is my commitment. I’ve said that. I’ve gone on record and said that over and over again. And so that is what I will focus on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jagler said he was taken back by Gokalghandi\u2019s dismissive attitude.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, \u2018chuckle, chuckle, chuckle, we’re breaking state law, and we don’t care.\u2019 That just infuriated me. And not just the answer, which I guess I appreciate the honesty, but the just a flippant nature of it,\u201d Jagler added.<\/p>\n

There is no way for the legislature to force MPS to return school resource officers to its schools. The shared revenue law doesn\u2019t include any punishments. Jageler said neither Gov. Tony Evers nor Wisconsin\u2019s attorney general will \u201ctouch\u201d the law to enforce it.<\/p>\n

But, Jagler said, MPS may be creating a bigger problem by thumbing their nose at the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat it’s going to do, going forward, as we look at anything with MPS, [maybe a] bailout with new funding, how can we trust them to do anything?\u201d Jagler asked.<\/p>\n

Jagler said MPS responded to his letter with a promise to have an update on its school resource officer program at this week\u2019s school board meeting. But he said the district isn\u2019t promising to actually return officers to school anytime soon.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018We have been in discussions with stakeholders, including the teachers union, and the police department the goal to develop a plan in partnership with MPD which redefines the previous role of school resource officers,\u201d Jagler read from MPS\u2019 response to his letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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