Council heeds alarm on school exits

The City Council will finally hold a public hearing on a bill that would require alarms on the exit doors of public schools to prevent tragedies such as the disappearance and death of Avonte Oquendo.

The June 12 hearing was announced just hours after The Post reported that the council’s Education Committee was dragging its feet in taking up “Avonte’s Law” — despite support from 46 of the 51 council members and all major parent groups.

The de Blasio administration had raised objections to the measure, and some reps from the teachers union had expressed misgivings.

Brooklyn Councilman Robert Cornegy, who introduced the bill March 12, welcomed the hearing — a precursor to the bill being enacted into law.

“We’re excited about this opportunity, which has been long awaited,” said Cornegy, who has five children in public school.

Avonte (right), 14, who was autistic, slipped out of a side door at his school in Long Island City, Queens, undetected in October and was missing until found dead in January.

Since then, at least seven other students, some as young as 4, have walked out of their school buildings.

Should the measure become law, alarms, each costing about $160, would be installed in school buildings housing 600,000 elementary and specialeducation students.