Sentences with phrase «other school discipline reform»

After all, it comes on the heels of Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio amplifying the accusations of Eden and other school discipline reform opponents that the Obama Administration - era guidance was responsible for Nickolas Cruz's murder of 17 children and teachers at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School.

Not exact matches

«AISD officials had to struggle with the competing agendas of numerous outside partners such as Austin's business leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that....

To be sure, it's because dysfunctional schools and systems are implementing discipline reform poorly, just like they implement so many other initiatives poorly.

Restorative justice interventions or other discipline reforms may prove to be successful alternatives to out - of - school suspensions; however, their efficacy has not yet been evaluated in rigorously designed evaluations.

Oakland Kids First accomplishments include winning: a Meaningful Student Engagement policy and office within OUSD (2006); an increase in funding from 2.5 % to 3.0 % for OFCY (2008); a Code of Respect policy reforming discipline at three sites (2013), and a number of other victories that improved retention rates, lowered suspensions and fostered greater connections to school.

This has included issuing guidance that effectively stops Office for Civil Rights investigators from looking at three years of past complaints to prove that a district or other school operators has engaged in systematic overspending of Black, Latino, and Native children, as well as the hiring of Hans Bader, a vocal opponent of school discipline reform.

As such, all the elementary schools in his district have the same curriculum driven by the same comprehensive school reform model; the same school environment and discipline policy; and the same way of using Title I and other federal budget dollars.

Which is why shoddy polemicism by the likes of Eden and other opponents of school discipline reform deserve to be exposed and denigrated.

Ultimately, the authors of the CCE report and other reform advocates want schools to adopt methods of disciplining students that don't involve excluding them from school.

But yesterday's Dropout Nation takedown of use of faulty data by Manhattan Institute pundit Max Eden and other opponents of reforming school discipline generated plenty of discussion both in social media and in e-mails.

Meanwhile Trump's ascent into the White House bodes ill for one of the Obama Administration's most - admirable efforts: Holding districts accountable for overusing out - of - school suspensions and other harsh school discipline that put poor and minority children onto the school - to - prison pipeline, an important issue both on the education and criminal justice reform fronts.

The Student Fair Access to School Act of 2017 has the potential to cut out - of - school suspensions by about half, but the city should look to other districts like Chicago and Philadelphia as well as D.C. schools such as Kingsman Academy PCS and Ron Brown College Preparatory HS to anticipate unintended consequences of a top - down discipline rSchool Act of 2017 has the potential to cut out - of - school suspensions by about half, but the city should look to other districts like Chicago and Philadelphia as well as D.C. schools such as Kingsman Academy PCS and Ron Brown College Preparatory HS to anticipate unintended consequences of a top - down discipline rschool suspensions by about half, but the city should look to other districts like Chicago and Philadelphia as well as D.C. schools such as Kingsman Academy PCS and Ron Brown College Preparatory HS to anticipate unintended consequences of a top - down discipline reform.