Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) will gather feedback from students, staff and community members on the effectiveness of the Community Engagement Officer (CEO) program with a November deadline to report back to the board, according to a school board resolution approved Thursday.
The CEO program involves county police officers assigned to a specific high school and its feeder schools, known as a cluster. The officers have an office in their assigned high school, but do not patrol hallways.
The program was introduced in the 2022-2023 school year after MCPS removed county police officers, known as school resource officers, from campuses the previous year following concerns over students of color being disproportionately disciplined. Some community members have argued that returning to using school resource officers, who were assigned to high schools and patrolled campuses, would make schools safer.
On March 18, school board member Brenda Wolff (Dist. 5) put forth a resolution directing MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor to “solicit student, staff, parent and community input on the current CEO program within the context of school safety.” On Thursday, the board unanimously approved the resolution...
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/05/13/mcps-evaluate-community-engagement-officer-program/
This should be interesting. The last time they solicited input,
ReplyDelete1. The SRO's were taken out of the schools.
2. The kids and parents wanted them to change uniforms to polos and Dockers.
3. Only those that had problems spoke up.
No one heard the hundreds of GREAT things SRO's have done for the schools over the years.
They made great strides, the SROs are now CEOs!
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