CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Education activists lost their fight to permanently remove Chicago police officers from Chicago Public Schools.
Chicago's school board voted Wednesday 4-2 to renew its contract with the Chicago Police Department, allowing CPD to provide School Resource Officers, or SROs, to 55 of the city's public schools.
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Activists held out hope that the board would end the program, saying students felt unsafe after encounters with police in and outside school.
In recent weeks, Local School Councils at more than a dozen Chicago Public Schools voted to remove School Resource Officers. In all, 17 schools have chosen to remove their SROs and 55 chose to keep theirs.
It is unclear whether the issue will come before the school board again in the coming months.