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Crime in state's public schools decline

The number of reportable acts of school crime decreased in the 2015-2016 school year. George Olsen has more.

The state Department of Public Instruction’s 2015-2016 Consolidated Data Report says the number of reported acts of school crime decreased 3.2 percent last school year. The number of reportable crimes was 10,020 compared to 10,347 the prior school year. There are 16 reportable offenses, of which four showed increases including assault on school personnel and possession of a firearm or explosive. The report also said there was a 4 percent increase in short term suspensions of 10 days or less while long term suspensions decreased 4.5 percent. And only four school districts out of 115 reported using corporal punishment. I’m George Olsen.

George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.