The contract approved by the Douglas County Board of Education and STEM School Highlands Ranch officials came hours before the charter was set to expire on Saturday and after renewed negotiations that had been put on hold by the May 7 school shooting that killed one student and wounded eight others. Its members had proposed a three-year renewal, but STEM school officials were pushing for a five-year deal. The terms also require the school to contract with local law-enforcement agencies for a school resource officer who will be assigned to the high school program, in addition to a private security officer for the middle school and elementary school programs. School leaders previously said STEM will add a full-time school resource officer from a sheriff’s office this fall. That is an expansion of the security that was in place at the time of the shooting, when one private security guard was assigned to the school.

Source: thestar June 29, 2019 22:18 UTC