De Blas panel: Oust NYPD from schools

There was chaos in the schools [when the old Board of Ed. was in charge of school security]. Now we want to go back to that? — NYPD-agents union boss Greg Floyd (left)

An advisory panel assembled by the de Blasio administration says the city should consider transferring school security from the NYPD to the Department of Education.

The School Diversity Advisory Group on Tuesday issued a wide range of recommendations aimed at trying to better integrate the city’s starkly divided schools — including one that seeks a wholesale review of security practices.

In its report, the panel called for city and education officials to “analyze the benefits and drawbacks of moving school safety agents to DOE supervision from NYPD supervision.”

It said it also wants City Hall to “assess the roles and responsibilities of school safety agents in school communities.”

The roughly 40-person panel is made up mainly of parents, academics and activists and includes close allies of Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza. It was formed more than a year ago.

Its suggestion on school safety immediately drew the ire of the NYPD agents’ union boss, Greg Floyd.

“This would be a step backwards,” Floyd said, adding that the former city Board of Education, now the DOE, had previously been responsible for school security — with dismal results.

“I was there,” Floyd said. “There was chaos in the schools. Now we want to go back to that?”

Floyd, who has previously sparred with City Hall over his claims that it routinely suppresses school crime stats, said moving control to the DOE would only limit transparency even more.

“You would not hear of crimes in city schools,” he said. “The public would never know what is going on. Every New Yorker should be concerned about this.”

But critics of the existing system argue that the NYPD agents create too much of a police-state feeling and target a disproportionate number of minority students.

The safety- and discipline-related recommendations were only part of the long-anticipated study — helmed by de Blasio’s former top counsel, Maya Wiley — which demanded far greater urgency and tangible action in dismantling school segregation.

Carranza and de Blasio have backed a series of initiatives aimed at introducing more black and Hispanic kids into schools that are largely Asian and white.

The advisory group said that over the next five years, city schools should better reflect their surrounding communities in terms of everything from race and income to home language.