DEMANDS
FEDERAL
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End all federal funding (if any) for police-in-school / policing-in-school programs
PROVINCIAL & TERRITORIAL
Mandate the immediate removal of all and any type of police-in-school programs and policing-in-school programs across all educational levels (K-12 and post-secondary institutions) as a first and necessary step moving towards policing-free schools
Mandate the immediate removal of policing, carceral and punitive infrastructures, practices and policies from educational spaces; and review and amend already existing legislation and create new legislation that simultaneously works to uproot policing, carceral and punitive culture and logic alongside creation of accountability measures and properly and equitably fund and resource the co-creation of transformative, healthy, equitable, anti-racist, anti-oppressive, life-affirming, liberatory, healing-centred public educational spaces across the continuum of preschool, pre-K, K-12 School Boards, and Post-Secondary institutions.
POST-SECONDARY
(Re)Commit to the equitable and human rights-based decision of removing police(ing)-in-school program
(Re)Commit to what is evidence-based and addresses social determinants of health and equity and policies that create conditions for thriving healthy educational spaces NOT expansion of police-in-schools, whether that be through bringing back the former SRO program, a “revised” version or any other policies that would expand police, policing and carceral measures at schools
SCHOOL BOARDS
(Re)Commit to the equitable and human rights-based decision of removing police(ing)-in-school program
(Re)Commit to what is evidence-based and addresses social determinants of health and equity and policies that create conditions for thriving healthy educational spaces NOT expansion of police-in-schools, whether that be through bringing back the former SRO program, a “revised” version or any other policies that would expand police, policing and carceral measures at schools
PRE-K & CHILDCARE
(Re)Commit to the equitable and human rights-based decision of removing police(ing)-in-school program
(Re)Commit to what is evidence-based and addresses social determinants of health and equity and policies that create conditions for thriving healthy educational spaces NOT expansion of police-in-schools, whether that be through bringing back the former SRO program, a “revised” version or any other policies that would expand police, policing and carceral measures at schools
MUNICIPALITIES
(Re)Commit to the equitable and human rights-based decision of removing police(ing)-in-school program
(Re)Commit to what is evidence-based and addresses social determinants of health and equity and policies that create conditions for thriving healthy educational spaces NOT expansion of police-in-schools, whether that be through bringing back the former SRO program, a “revised” version or any other policies that would expand police, policing and carceral measures at schools
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
(Re)Commit to the equitable and human rights-based decision of removing police(ing)-in-school program
(Re)Commit to what is evidence-based and addresses social determinants of health and equity and policies that create conditions for thriving healthy educational spaces NOT expansion of police-in-schools, whether that be through bringing back the former SRO program, a “revised” version or any other policies that would expand police, policing and carceral measures at schools