Chicago Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson told reporters he agrees with the city’s Board of Education that police officers should be removed from the city’s high schools.
The Chicago Police Department has a $10.3 million contract with the city’s board of education, but the Board wants to terminate it. Johnson told the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ this week that he will give the go-ahead for the police to be removed. “Nearly all the board of education members who approved last year’s $10.3 million school resource office contract have been replaced by Johnson appointees,” WBEZ noted.
“The Board of Education is moving in the direction that I do support,” Johnson stated. “There is an intergovernmental agreement between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Police Department. To end that agreement, there’s no qualms from me there.” The Sun-Times said Chicago Public School…
