Milwaukee Public School District does not have a timeline to put police officers back in schools, despite state mandate [Video]

Milwaukee Public School District board members said on Thursday that the district does not have a timeline for when police officers will be back in school despite missing the state-mandated deadline in January. The district stopped police officers patrolling Milwaukee Public Schools after protests in 2020. However, Wisconsin’s shared revenue bill passed last year, also known as Act 12, required Milwaukee Public Schools to have 25 police officers back in schools by January 2024, nearly nine months ago.A state senator, earlier this week, accused MPS of breaking the law.At a school board meeting Thursday Interim Superintendent Eduardo Galvan gave an update to the board. He said there is a rough draft of an agreement between MPS and the Milwaukee Police Department, called an Memorandum of Understanding, to add police officers back in MPS buildings.Board members told WISN 12 News they had seen the rough draft agreement and were able to …