"Lose the Money, Lose the Body": Local School Councils, School Resource Officers, and Community Control

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Two
  In Roundtable Session: Frames and Drivers of Discipline and School Policing Reform (Table 3)

Abstract

This Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) examines the conflict over whether to retain School Resource Officers in Chicago Public Schools, and the role of Local School Councils in school safety policymaking. Through a review of policy documents, newspaper articles, and relevant literature, we describe the agenda and logics of the mayor and the central office as they shaped the discourse and influenced the decision-making process. Secondly, we collected and organized publicly available data about the schools that participated in the SRO voting to demonstrate how racial/ethnic composition and perceptions of community violence influenced the SRO votes, thus reinscribing logics that sustain the school-to-prison nexus.

Authors

• Alexios Rosario-Moore, Northern Illinois University
  Presenting Author

• Kylee Coney, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Presenting Author

• David Krosin
  Presenting Author

• Denali Dasgupta
  Presenting Author