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Do school police make students feel safer?
Nationally, armed school resource officers (SROs) are part of many students’ daily experience. In Florida, state law even requires armed personnel in schools for the protection of students. Amid a national conversation on policing following the killing of George Floyd, though, how can policymakers also ensure students feel safe at school?
UF education professor and director of the Education Policy Research Center, F. Chris Curran, addresses this question by looking at how interactions with SROs predict students feelings of safety and likelihood of being disciplined in research to be published in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
While school districts offered options for online classes this fall, technological gaps and the inherent limits of distance learning caused some students to fall even further behind.