The Dignity in Schools Campaign joins our members and allies around the country in calling on the U.S. Department of Education to keep the joint school discipline guidance released by the Departments of Education and Justice in 2014. (dignityinschools.org)
In 2014 the Department of Education and Department of Justice jointly released an extremely helpful school discipline guidance package to address these kinds of inequities in school discipline and reinforce the meaning of the non-discrimination requirements under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. (charlestonchronicle.net)
For example, the federal school discipline guidance jointly released by the U.S. departments of Education and Justice in January 2014 not only mentions implicit bias as a factor that may affect the administration of school discipline, it also encourages school personnel to receive implicit bias training. (aft.org)