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Students and advocates press City Council to fund restorative justice and school mental‑health clinics, call to stop new school cop hires
Summary
Dozens of students, parents and advocates urged the Council to expand restorative justice, baseline mental‑health clinics in schools and redirect vacant school‑police funding. Testimony included student accounts of policing, requests to baseline $6M+ for restorative justice and expand school‑based mental health clinics.
Lede: Students, parents, advocates and school staff packed testimony sessions to demand more mental health staff, permanent funding for restorative justice in every school and for the city to stop recruiting and hiring school police — requests that would shift tens of millions of dollars from police budgets to social support and prevention.
What people asked for: Students and youth organizers asked the Council to ' (a) baseline and expand restorative justice staffing (youth leaders and school coordinators), (b) expand school‑based mental health clinics and add more social workers and psychologists to reach recommended caseloads, and (c) freeze hiring for school police and redirect vacant police positions'funding into…
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