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    In a roiled Minneapolis, schools are testing new model for safety

    Apr 20, 2021 7 minutes
    A mural outside South High School in Minneapolis, painted by students in 2019, reads, "I am not in the world simply to adapt to it, but rather to transform it." Some students at South High School advocated to remove police officers from schools last year. Students returned to in-person classes on April 12, their first time attending without school resource officers.

    Update:  A Minneapolis jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd on Tuesday afternoon.

    When Nathaniel Genene walked into his Minneapolis high school last week for the first time in over a year he quickly noticed that there was no uniformed police officer standing watch. 

    “Usually when you walk in SROs are the first thing you see and the last when you walk out,” he says, using the abbreviation for school resource officers. 

    Mr. Genene, a senior at Washburn High School, served as the citywide student representative on the Minneapolis school board last year. He helped push the board to cut ties with the city’s police department last June in the wake of the death of George Floyd in police custody. Other school systems, including in Portland, Oregon, and Denver followed suit, sparking a wave of districts reconsidering whether officers belong in schools. 

    In Minneapolis, where police department contracts with Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) date back to the 1960s, a new cadre of civilian safety support specialists is now in place. And despite challenges here from events outside school doors – the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin,

    A new role Some community pushback

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