School Board Policy

Author Leslie T. Fenwick said the effects were so damaging that "the nation’s public schools still have not recovered."

The school board approved the policy in June and notified parents that Missouri’s Cassville school district is bringing back spanking – a disciplinary measure abandoned by the district in 2001.

A Wisconsin school board voted in favor of a policy that prohibits teachers and staff from displaying gay pride flags and other items that district officials consider political in nature.

School boards across Virginia are about to start considering new policies on sexually explicit materials.

“If you really want to know what it's going to take to retain great teachers, to recruit great teachers, we've got to talk to the teachers themselves,” said Mark Walker, chair of the commission.

The Mississippi Board of Education voted to remove a policy that barred individuals with enhanced concealed carry permits from carrying guns in elementary and secondary public schools, revising a 1990 policy that previously prohibited anyone other than “duly authorized law enforcement officials” from doing so.