Sentences with phrase «colleague guidance letter»

While Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is «considering» repealing the Obama administration's Dear Colleague guidance letter that pushed these discipline policies, the department has taken no action beyond meeting with Landers and others whose children have suffered under the new discipline policies.

Not exact matches

In January 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (ED) jointly released a «Dear Colleague Letter» containing guidance on how schools should avoid discriminating against students on the basis of race when administering disciplinary action.

As legal scholar Richard Epstein noted in a thorough and scathing Education Next review of the dear - colleague letter, «[T] he guidance offers no safe harbor for conducting routine discipline, free of constant federal oversight.

In a «Dear Colleague» letter released last year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (ED) issued guidance for schools on avoiding discrimination against students on the basis of race when administering school disciplinary policies, and warned that if minority students are subject to disciplinary actions at a higher rate than other students, schools could be faulted for civil - rights violations.

If the Obama Administration's 2014 «Dear Colleague» letter on school discipline had been just another one of the zillion «guidance» documents sent by federal agencies to school systems every year, it would not deserve much concern.

The question regarding the 2014 «Dear Colleague» letter on discipline, however, isn't about acts of discrimination, or about whether Uncle Sam should offer helpful «guidance.»

If you want to get a better sense of the shoddiness of the arguments of opponents of school discipline reform, especially when it comes to the Department of Education's guidance on reducing the overuse of harsh school discipline, simply look at the traditional districts represented in Congress by Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, who this morning, complained that the four - year - old Dear Colleague letter made school leaders «afraid» to discipline children in their care.

The federal guidance from 2014's «Dear colleague» letter was formulated in response to our students» struggles for equitable disciplinary practices and path to academic success.

The Department of Education recently released an extensive Dear Colleague letter (Download Colleague - bullying -201410-1) detailing past guidance on the obligations of schools when students with disabilities are bullied either because of their disability or for any reason.

The guidance reminded schools of their obligation to serve students in a non-discriminatory manner and offered recommendations for making discipline more equitable (Joint «Dear Colleague Letter», 2014).

In January 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights issued a joint federal guidance stating that school discipline was discriminatory based on race and ethnicity and that exclusionary discipline «creates the potential for significant, negative educational and long - term outcomes, and can contribute to what has been termed the «school to prison pipeline»» (Joint «Dear Colleague Letter», 2014).

This encoded previous subregulatory guidance published by the US Department of Education in Dear Colleague Letter DCL - GEN -06-10.

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