Security at all Chicago public high schools will be audited following two shootings in the last two months near campuses, schools chief Arne Duncan announced Tuesday.
Duncan said a team of school employees will examine the history of discipline incidents at each school, as well as budgets and staffing levels.
The audit, which is expected to take three months, comes after fights last week at a basketball game between Manley and Crane High Schools and the two shootings. On Dec. 16, basketball star Maurice Evans was shot and killed across the street from Englewood High School. On Nov. 20, a special education administrator was hit by a stray bullet as she drove away from Austin High School.
Each of the city’s high schools has a minimum of two uniformed Chicago police officers and two security officers on duty during school hours. All of the high schools have metal detectors and several also have X-ray machines to scan backpacks and bags.
