In her speech, Clinton called for a $ 2 billion plan to
reform school disciplinary policies that feed the so - called school - to - prison pipeline.
Not exact matches
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.
One necessary part of that work:
Schools must examine and
reform their
disciplinary policies and practices.
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.
The bill follows a trend of
disciplinary policy reform in nearly 27 states and 50 large
school districts that affects more than 6.35 million students.