How many students are arrested at Chicago schools? CPS tells City Council it doesn’t know The debate over police officers working in public schools landed in the virtual chambers of Chicago’s City Council Thursday at a joint committee hearing that featured defense from police and schools officials and testimony from a city watchdog who in the past has offered scathing criticism of the school resource officer program. The online subject matter hearing came one week after Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s handpicked school board narrowly defeated a plan to yank Chicago police officers out of public schools, instead keeping the decision — for at least another month or two — largely in the hands of a select ... Continue reading... https://chicago.suntimes.com/educat...schools-cps-chicago-cops-local-school-council