Reminder as to why SSAs are critical:

• There are 5,038 School Safety Agents (SSAs) in NYC public schools.
• The Mayor and City Council are proposing to transfer these SSAs (who are 70% women) from the NYPD to the Department of Education (DOE).
• But ... the DOE has been unable to properly train and screen safety agents in the past.  And this is why they were moved to the NYPD in 1998. 
• 2018-2019, School Safety Agents confiscated 2,701 weapons from students.
• 1,677 of these weapons were knives -- a number that is 92% higher than in 2015.
• Parents agree ... Last year I circulated a petition that 355 parents signed. We submitted this petition to DOE, State Education Committee and at a PEP meeting last May.

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