Protesters crowded into a Los Angeles Unified's public hearing Tuesday on the district's $8 billion budget to demand officials do away with school police.
Superintendent Ramon Cortines proposed growing the school police budget by about $2 million, bringing the department's total funding to $59 million for the 2015-2016 school year.
The district runs the largest school police department in the country with more than 350 officers. The armed staff supervise students who walk to and from school under a safe passage program and perform other duties related to campus security.
Cortines has not explained why he is seeking the increase in funding for the school police.
Last fall, school police estimated they would need 80 new officers to protect students walking home from school with iPads. The department later retracted the statement.
[For more of this story, written by Annie Gilbertson, go to http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/...ice-budget-to-59-mi/]
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