Police Commissioner Ray Kelly joined other local leaders in Brooklyn Tuesday to announce the creation of a program aimed at fully prosecuting attackers of school safety officers.

The majority of safety agents' attackers are students, and the program would make sure they are prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

The first program of its kind in the city is modeled after similar programs in place to protect police officers and transit workers.

"Our school safety agents represent a small fraction of the almost 1.2 million participants we have in our school system -- that is students, teachers and support personnel -- but they are victims of about a third of the assaults reported in schools," said Kelly. "In fact, it used to be worse. In 2005, they were 40 percent of the victim of assaults."

"With respect to the cases pending in my bureau, for the cases for the year of 2010, a lot of them, I would say approximately 90 percent of them, are students assaulting school safety agents," said Colleen Babb of the School Advocacy Bureau.

One of the people present at the conference was a Bronx school safety officer who was stabbed in the eye with an umbrella as she tried to break up a school fight.