The Akron Board of Education voted Monday to approve a new memorandum of understanding with the city to again place 14 police officers into middle and high schools throughout the district.

The Akron Public Schools board had held off for months on approving the agreement, voting it down in April over concerns about the district lacking authority to remove officers from buildings. Instead, the previous memorandum required the district to first get approval from the chief of police to remove any officer.

As discussions continued into mid-August, Mayor Shammas Malik and Akron Education Association president Pat Shipe last week expressed concerns in separate statements about the district not having officers deployed at schools by the time school starts for most students on Aug. 25. Malik welc

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