Sentences with phrase «of school disciplinary policies»

The series explores the effect of school disciplinary policies on school dropout rates and future involvement in the juvenile justice system.

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The school recommended dealing with the matter of «misconduct» under its disciplinary policy.

FORT GREENE — SUNY has reportedly launched an investigation into Success Academy Fort Greene's disciplinary policy after school administrators were accused of creating a «Got to Go» list of problematic students.

SUNY, which licenses charter schools, has launched an investigation into Success Academy's disciplinary policy after school administrators were accused of creating a «Got to Go» list of problematic students at Success Academy Fort Greene.

About 21 percent attend one with a disciplinary policy that fits the «no broken windows» school of thinking, which holds that encouraging small courtesies and punishing small infractions (usually at the classroom level) are important.

2.3 Show awareness of your school «s disciplinary policy.

The departments, citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, gave the school districts «guidance on how to identify, avoid, and remedy discriminatory discipline,» telling them they risked legal action if school disciplinary policies had «a disparate impact, i.e., a disproportionate and unjustified effect on students of a particular race.»

Specifically, they are working to help schools replace harsh disciplinary policies, which lead to high levels of suspensions and expulsions, with a commonsense approach that allows young people to take responsibility and learn from their mistakes while they are in school.

• Epstein says the DOJ and ED err when arguing against disciplinary policies on the basis of «disparate impact,» a phrase with a legal history that, «when applied to schools, imputes race - conscious behavior on the part of school administrators.»

The letter warns that if the percentage of minorities receiving disciplinary action is disproportionately high, even when resulting from ostensibly race - neutral policies such as zero - tolerance, schools could be faulted for civil - rights violations.

«Our school has a strict policy on cheating which includes an automatic zero percent grade on the test and disciplinary action from the dean of students,» Garner said.

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.

A study from the Consortium of Policy Research in Education (CPRE) of Philadelphia schools after the reform found that schools using positive rather than punitive disciplinary measures had more faculty cohesion, better teacher morale, and served higher socioeconomic status students than schools not complying with the reform.

Also, in recent decades schools have moved away from disciplinary practices that rely on the judgment, discretion, and action of professional educators and have turned instead to reliance on school security guards, uniformed police, technical surveillance, security apparatus, and zero - tolerance policies.

District officials were advised that they risk legal action if school disciplinary policies have «a disparate impact, i.e., a disproportionate and unjustified effect on students of a particular race.»

In 2014 the departments of Education and Justice together sent each school district a letter advising them that they risked legal action if disciplinary policies had a disparate impact on students of a particular race.

Zero - tolerance policies, which require out - of - school suspension or expulsion for certain inappropriate behaviors, have become the go - to disciplinary approach in many schools, though research suggests they have some downsides.

Yet they also led school districts to abandon disciplinary practices that relied on educator judgment and to adopt heavily bureaucratic procedures and zero - tolerance policies that arguably undermine the authority of school officials and make it more difficult for them to maintain order.

One necessary part of that work: Schools must examine and reform their disciplinary policies and practices.

Following the eruption of rampage school gun violence in the 1990's primary and secondary schools began adopting «zero tolerance» policies, which required schools to set formalized, predetermined disciplinary procedures for incidents of school violence, drugs and other unwanted behavior.

In yet another recent report of a large national study of 400 Chapter 1 schools, researchers found that higher levels of poverty, greater application of grade retention policies, and higher levels of student disciplinary actions were related to lower student achievement (Puma et al., 1997).

who framed the resolution, «charter schools have operated without sufficient transparency; intensified segregation; employed psychologically harmful disciplinary policies; and deprived neighborhood public schools of necessary space and resources through co-location in district buildings.»

In the opinion of delegates who framed the resolution, «charter schools have operated without sufficient transparency; intensified segregation; employed psychologically harmful disciplinary policies; and deprived neighborhood public schools of necessary space and resources through co-location in district buildings.»

In other words, it is a process of criminalizing youth that is carried out by disciplinary policies and practices within schools that put students into contact with law enforcement.

While maintained schools and academies each have a separate legal framework for disciplinary policy, they are both ultimately subject to general public concepts of acting lawfully, reasonably, rationally and in a procedurally fair way.

Charter Schools» Discipline Policies Face Scrutiny As the number of charter schools continues to grow, one facet of their autonomy — the ability to set and enforce independent disciplinary standards — has raised difficult questions about whether those schools are pushing out students who pose behavior or academic challenges and how their policies affect regular public sSchools» Discipline Policies Face Scrutiny As the number of charter schools continues to grow, one facet of their autonomy — the ability to set and enforce independent disciplinary standards — has raised difficult questions about whether those schools are pushing out students who pose behavior or academic challenges and how their policies affect regular public Policies Face Scrutiny As the number of charter schools continues to grow, one facet of their autonomy — the ability to set and enforce independent disciplinary standards — has raised difficult questions about whether those schools are pushing out students who pose behavior or academic challenges and how their policies affect regular public sschools continues to grow, one facet of their autonomy — the ability to set and enforce independent disciplinary standards — has raised difficult questions about whether those schools are pushing out students who pose behavior or academic challenges and how their policies affect regular public sschools are pushing out students who pose behavior or academic challenges and how their policies affect regular public policies affect regular public schoolsschools.

We facilitate the use of data by those preparing for, or engaged in, meaningful actions to replace harsh and ineffective disciplinary policies and practices with approaches that are effective for children, schools and their communities.

First we heard about Sen. Delgado sponsoring an amendment to ban charter schools from charging fines for disciplinary infractions, in direct response to the efforts of PURE, VOYCE and the Advancement Project to challenge the absurd and unfair policy of CPS's pet charter company, Noble Network.

The city council's restorative - justice investment is vaguely described as an «allocation [that] will support the implementation of» the pilot program, «which will change the culture of the chosen 15 schools approach to school disciplinary policies.»

As a result of State and public pressure, Achievement First / Amistad has reportedly made improvements to its disciplinary policies; and lately the company has explored the idea of alternative methods in addition to its current «no excuses» schooling.

Advocates have long called on CPS to institute restorative justice on a district - wide basis, including charter schools, some of which continue to feature punitive disciplinary policies.

By February 16, 2018, and annually thereafter through February 14, 2020, the District, in collaboration with the working groups, will develop and provide informational programs for parents or guardians of students at all District schools (parent programs) that will explain the disciplinary policies of the District in an easily understood manner.

«They (disciplinary policies) weren't making schools safer,» said Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, whose keynote speech preceded the panel discussion.

The vast majority of charter schools also have policies that are overly dependent on disciplinary procedures and directly work to undermine teachers, their unions and the teaching profession.

We believe that harsh disciplinary policies, such as zero tolerance, contribute to the school to prison pipeline by criminalizing students and pushing them out of school.

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Besides the enormous concerns with Achievement First's disciplinary policies as revealed in the report last year (which should have resulted in placing the charter under state supervision and in preventing additional school takeovers, I mean openings), a troubling issue with In - School Suspensions, Time Out Rooms, and Out - of - School suspensions, at all grade levels, is that it takes students out of the learning enviroschool takeovers, I mean openings), a troubling issue with In - School Suspensions, Time Out Rooms, and Out - of - School suspensions, at all grade levels, is that it takes students out of the learning enviroSchool Suspensions, Time Out Rooms, and Out - of - School suspensions, at all grade levels, is that it takes students out of the learning enviroSchool suspensions, at all grade levels, is that it takes students out of the learning environment.

The article conveniently overlooks that fact that the charter school industry fails to provide equal educational opportunities for children who require special education services, those who aren't fluent in the English Language and those who are forced out of charter schools for failure to survive the abusive disciplinary policies.

And like Pryor, Goldfarb was a big fan of charter schools despite their unwillingness to provide equal educational opportunities to students who require special educational services, those who aren't proficient in the English Language or those who fail to adhere to the abusive and degrading harsh disciplinary policies that are the staple of charter school operations.

Rather than focus on poverty, language barriers, unmet special education needs and inadequate funding of public schools, the charter school proponents and Malloy apologists want students, parents, teachers and the public to believe that a pre-occupation with standardized testing, a focus on math and English, «zero - tolerance» disciplinary policies for students and undermining the teaching profession will force students to «succeed» while solving society's problems.

Governor Malloy's tenure has been characterized by denigrating teachers, vigorously opposing adequate funding of public schools and vastly increasing financial support for privately run charter schools which fail to serve the state's neediest children, including English Language Learners and students with disabilities, have disturbingly harsh disciplinary policies, increase racial isolation, drain public money from needy public schools and have even been implicated in fraud and theft.

In the meantime, let us hope up the General Assembly's Committee on Children and Education Committee will hold a public hearing on what could very well be the abusive disciplinary policies of schools like Achievement First, Jumoke Academy and Capital Prep.

In its report released this month, the committee issued a number of commonsense recommendations ranging from better professional development of teachers, of school law enforcement officers and of juvenile - justice workers to a repudiation of «zero - tolerance» disciplinary policies.

The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools as well as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern of fraud of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization of education, opposed diversion of funding from public schools, called for full funding for quality public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.

This 18 - month, mixed - methods, exploratory study, conducted in partnership with the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, will have three phases: 1) Qualitative inquiry across K - 8 schools in Philadelphia; 2) Latent class analysis to identify «profiles» of school disciplinary approaches, coupled with event history analysis to examine student outcomes in context; 3) Case studies to examine contextual themes in depth.

But the research clearly shows a correlation between school disciplinary policies and dropout rates and that students of ethnic and racial minority status, and for whom English is a second language, tend to be more likely to face disciplinary actions.

Factors such as inequitable levels of school funding, unequal distribution of highly qualified and experienced teachers, harsh disciplinary policies, minimally articulated core curriculum, and lack of consistent instructional support can result in a system that causes vulnerable students to continue falling further behind.

The committee recommended that the department «impose mandatory reforms to disciplinary policies for schools that demonstrate significant disparities in disciplinary actions on the basis of race, color, or disability,» but that's not as ominous as it might seem.

Daniel Losen of the The Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the UCLA Civil Rights Project (CRP / CCRR) looks at disciplinary policies and practices in school that result in disparities, and provides remedies that may be enacted at federal, state, and district levels.

The Elizabethton Board of Education approved first reading of a disciplinary policy last month that continues to allow corporal punishment in the school system.