School discipline Archive
Here are some surprising statistics about school discipline today: Some 4 million U.S. students –– almost 1 in 10 –– are suspended from school annually. Prekindergarten children get expelled three times more often than students in primary and secondary grades. …
You’ve heard of “driving while black.” That’s the police penalty on black motorists, who get stopped, ticketed and searched more often and for flimsier reasons than white drivers. Then there’s “learning while black, male and with disabilities.” That’s the trifecta …
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Suspended multiple times as a student, Juan Peña now fights to keep kids in class. As an organizer for Los Angeles advocacy group Youth Justice Coalition, he’s supporting legislation that would ban willful defiance suspensions in schools statewide. Critics have …
More than a year after creating the Bureau of Children’s Justice, California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced five investigations across the state, including examining how counties report child abuse, excessive force at juvenile detention centers, the actions of school police and school discipline …
Mike Lamb, TurnAround for Children ________________________ There is a growing national consensus, reflected in the positions and priorities of lawmakers at all levels of government, that the U.S. criminal justice system must be reformed with the goal of ending mass …
District of Columbia Councilmember David Grosso _____________________ Two-and-a-half years ago, a school administrator confronted District of Columbia Councilmember David Grosso with a stark and surprising reality when he visited the Walker-Jones Education Campus to learn about a literacy intervention program. …
Three years ago, the story about how Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tried a new approach to school discipline and saw suspensions drop 85% struck a nerve. It went viral – twice — with more than 700,000 page views. …
Kimberly Cervantes, student-plaintiff in law suit against Compton Unified School District in California. A landmark first step was taken today to insure that all public schools in the United States be legally required to address the unique learning needs of …
In Walla Walla, Washington, the journey to implement ACEs research has been akin to a wild ride on a transformer roller coaster that arbitrarily changes its careening turns, mountainous ascents, and hair-raising plunges. And sometimes the ride just screeches to …
