Security was even tighter at schools that received intense police attention last year after being branded as the city's most dangerous.
The percentage changes reflect the relatively low numbers of major crimes in even the most dangerous schools.
Officials cautioned against labeling the 12 schools the city's most dangerous.
Now it is considered one of the city's most dangerous schools.
Children in dangerous schools should transfer to safe ones, he said.
Within two weeks, he announced a plan to flood the city's most dangerous schools with additional safety agents and police officers.
You then report that officials cautioned against labeling the 12 schools the city's most dangerous.
Is there something about acknowledging the existence of dangerous schools that some people find offensive?
Instead, the mayor proclaimed Kennedy a prime example of a dangerous school tamed.
As do his children, for the most part, who have to adjust to a more dangerous school.