Plans are being made to beef up security in the second largest public school system in Massachusetts. WAMC”s Paul Tuthill reports
Police officers will be assigned to elementary schools in Springfield Massachusetts for the first time. Superintendent of Schools Dan Warwick says two police officers will guard the city’s 40 elementary schools on a revolving basis starting in September.
Police are currently assigned full time to all of Springfield’s middle schools, high schools, and alternative schools. The school department is funding two of 22 Springfield police recruits who will graduate from an academy class this fall.
