school discipline

The U.S. Education Department will collect massive amounts of school civil rights data for two consecutive years, rather than in alternate years, due to expressed concerns the Chinese coronavirus pandemic has negatively affected the Biden administration’s plan to make equity a central focus of public education.

Faculty members of the exclusive Dalton School in New York City have issued an eight-page anti-racism manifesto, the demands of which include sweeping changes in personnel, academic curriculum, and how black students are to be treated differently in discipline matters and assessing academic performance.

The St. Paul school district has agreed to pay $525,000 to a former teacher who openly criticized the district for failing black students with its lax discipline policies that did not hold them accountable for disruptive behavior.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed into law Monday a bill that now bans suspensions for willfully defiant students in grades kindergarten through eight.

Andrew Pollack had dedicated himself to making schools safe following the death of his 18-year-old daughter, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, who was one of 17 people shot and killed by a deranged former student in February.

Civil rights and education experts say signs are pointing to the Trump administration education department’s finally getting around to rethinking the Obama-era “guidance” on school discipline that many say has hurt minority students most and made schools more dangerous.

A Washington, D.C. attorney who has practiced both civil rights and constitutional law warns it is possible that Senate confirmation of a left-leaning Obama appointee to the high court could allow the federal government to take over not only police departments, but also all of school discipline in public schools.

Pope Francis addressed parents during his weekly audience Wednesday, strongly emphasizing that it is their role to educate their children, not that of “intellectual critics” who may try to take the place of parents, ousting them from their proper role.

A year after the Obama administration issued new school discipline policies based on the concern that students of color are “disproportionately impacted” by suspensions and expulsions, a journalist proposes the liberal policies–based in social justice ideology–are making schools less safe.