Milford School District says it scratched the practice from student handbook to "align the codes between the elementary and secondary levels as well as to streamline the content and align the terms."
Using police to enforce discipline often fails to address the underlying causes of a student's behavioral problems and may hinder the accommodations the child needs to succeed, the nonprofit Center for Policing Equity contends.
Punitive school discipline is rampant in the United States, whether it’s corporal punishment or, much more commonly, suspensions. Students lost more than 11 million days to out-of-school suspensions during the 2017-18 school year, the last federal count, and they spent many times that number in in-school suspension rooms, kept from the classrooms where their teachers were teaching.
Former Carrollton Exempted Village School District Superintendent David Quattrochi and board member Michael Pozderac get 30 days of jail for theft scheme involving air purifiers.
Florida's capital city superintendent who has been under investigation for his "politically charged statements" and infusing “personal views” into his administration of the school district has settled with the state’s education agency.
At the top of Superintendent Rupak Gandhi's summer to-do list is telling everyone that Fargo Public Schools is about honesty in education, supporting the LGBTQ+ community and disability justice.
For instance, both librarians and teachers in Arkansas are subject to up to six years—or a $10,000 fine—if they provide what is considered to be obscene material, according to a newly enacted law that takes effect Aug. 1.
Research has found that stricter discipline policies disproportionately harm students of color but a rise in violence and other behavioral problems is fueling a return to move punitive punishments.
A survey of Denver's teachers found that smaller class sizes and expanded mental health services were preferred solutions over SROs and metal detectors. But teachers elsewhere want more police in their schools.
