More Security at Burbank Schools : Campus Violence: Heeding pleas from teachers, the Board of Education is expected to approve hiring one security aide at each of its two high schools.

The Burbank Board of Education, faced with protests from teachers about increased violence on school campuses, tonight is expected to approve plans to hire one additional security aide for each of Burbank’s two high schools.

Four of the five board members said there is a need for additional security at John Burroughs and Burbank high schools and predicted that the measure will be passed.

Each high school already has one campus security aide and one unarmed, part-time police officer.

“We want to begin to respond to the concerns of the faculty and the community,” board member Charles Goldwasser said. “I think this is a good starting place.”

The board also will consider recommendations from teachers to install additional telephones at the high schools to help speed communications between classrooms and administrative offices, said Supt. Arthur N. Pierce.

The primary job of security aides, who are equipped with two-way radios, is to patrol school grounds to ensure that students are where they are supposed to be and to alert administrators of any problems, he said.

Jerry Quell, faculty chairman at John Burroughs, said teachers are encouraged by the board’s attempts to address the safety issue.

“It’s a step in the right direction,” Quell said. “They’re showing they want to work with us.”

The district will need to dip into reserves to pay for additional security aides, which will cost about $40,000 a year, officials said.

“Hopefully, this will help to deter some of the fears of the faculty and of parents,” board President Vivian Kaufman said.

Goldwasser agreed, but said “we want to do all we can to work with the entire district, not just the faculty” at John Burroughs and Burbank high schools.

Concerns about an increase in violence at Burbank schools were voiced Oct. 20 when teachers at Burroughs staged a one-day wildcat strike to protest the board’s decision not to expel a student accused of hitting a teacher and threatening to kill him and another instructor.

Board members have declined to comment on their decision, saying the alleged incident is a confidential matter.

According to state statistics, campus attacks and assaults on Burbank students have increased more than sixfold since 1984. The district reported 19 such incidents on its 17 campuses during the 1984-85 school year. By last year, the number of attacks had soared to 127.