In ground-breaking action, the Los Angeles Unified school board voted Tuesday to ban suspensionsof defiant students, directing officials to use alternative disciplinary practices instead.
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New America Media, News Report, Vanessa Tagliabue
Image: Students rally in front of the SFUSD offices in support of the Safe and Supportive Schools Resolution...
Center for Public Integrity, News Report, Susan Ferris
One of America’s most liberal bastions — San Francisco — has cut student suspensions by nearly a third in three years but continues to struggle with grossly disproportionate suspensions of black students...
The Long Beach Unified School District recently passed a resolution regarding school discipline policies. The school board urges “careful monitoring to prevent a disproportinate share of suspensions from occurring at a given school campus or with demographic subgroups of students and it urges schools to build upon existing efforts to provide alternatives.”..
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Out-of-school suspensions are on the rise across the country, a troubling statistic when you consider being suspended just once ups a student’s chances of dropping out entirely.
In ground-breaking action, the Los Angeles Unified school board voted Tuesday to ban suspensionsof defiant students, directing officials to use alternative disciplinary practices instead.
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Suspending and expelling students has become commonplace in many states including California...
California Watch, News Report, Joanna Lin, Posted: Apr 13, 2012
Racial minorities and students with disabilities are suspended at substantially higher rates than their white and non-disabled peers, according to an analysis of discipline data from nearly 500 California school districts.
New America Media, News Report, Donny Lumpkins and Malcolm Marshall, Posted: Feb 28, 2012
RICHMOND, Calif.
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