{"id":978,"date":"2023-02-24T12:02:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T13:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=978"},"modified":"2023-03-02T20:34:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T20:34:15","slug":"education-watch-milwaukee-school-safety-in-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"Education Watch: Milwaukee School Safety in Jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-milwaukee-school-safety-in-jeopardy\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-milwaukee-school-safety-in-jeopardy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>From the Badger Institute:<\/strong> \u201cA spokesman for Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson has told the Badger Institute it is \u2018likely that Milwaukee police officers will have a renewed presence in some Milwaukee Public Schools in 2023.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure from the mayor\u2019s office follows a fall semester when 34 MPS high schools made 778 calls for police service, 21.2% more than the 642 calls last spring and 16.5% more than the 668 made in the fall of 2021, according to police data obtained by the Badger Institute.\u201d Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badgerinstitute.org\/calls-to-police-from-mps-high-schools-up-dramatically-again\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2039\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Quinton-e1660321888133-300x300-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Quinton Klabon\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional context from IRG Senior Research Director Quinton Klabon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We can fully acknowledge that pandemic policies disrupted behavior standards, some high schools more than others, while also acknowledging that crimes on campus make it impossible for focused students to learn.<\/li>\n<li>Milwaukee\u2019s policies are designed to decrease suspensions to keep students in school. Suspensions <a href=\"https:\/\/milwaukeepublic.ic-board.com\/attachments\/6b3f0abf-27e3-4a30-a5b1-415e39cd8344.pdf\">are down<\/a> from last year. Is the balance off?<\/li>\n<li>School districts could collect anonymous student and staff safety surveys to gauge sentiment. Also, a public review of 2018 federal School Safety Initiative grant usage could determine whether schools are safe learning spaces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-milwaukee-school-safety-in-jeopardy\/ From the Badger Institute: \u201cA spokesman for Milwaukee Mayor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}