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The district’s new discipline matrix is a flowchart of sorts that spells out potential consequences for student behaviors ranging from horseplay to bringing a gun to school. District leaders ...
About a decade ago, Texas’ public schools suspended more than 100,000 students in pre-K through second grade. Faced with this ...
President Trump is shining a spotlight on the issue of school discipline, which is closely related to the growing problems of learning loss and falling test scores, though it’s unclear how much ...
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include the number of students in Gwinnett last school year. Gwinnett County Public Schools is poised to train all staff this school year in ...
For many district and school leaders, the new school year has not only brought excitement but also uncertainty about how to address their school discipline dilemma. Directors of student supports ...
Those who are suspended are more likely to drop out of school and less likely to enroll in postsecondary education. “If you continuously do that isolating discipline, you're giving them a very ...
school districts are focused on how to handle student behavior. Many schools are changing their approach. Many think students in schools today are acting out or behaving in ways at school their ...
In a move that has sparked divided reactions across the education community, the 47th president’s latest executive order on school discipline aims to reverse federal guidelines intended to ...
An audit found a number of shortcomings in the way Broward schools has reported student discipline cases in recent years, raising questions about whether the district properly intervenes with ...
President Trump has signed an executive order that could pave the way for a legal challenge of California law banning student suspensions for “willfully defiant” conduct. The directive has ...
The House of Delegates passed a school discipline bill a few weeks ago. Then the state Senate passed a different version aimed at similar policies. On Tuesday afternoon, members of the House ...
Racial differences in how schools discipline students received new attention 10 years ago, during a national reckoning with racial injustice. A decade later, change has been slow to materialize.