Sentences with phrase «school discipline cases»

Under Tinker v. Des Moines (1969), still the lodestar for school discipline cases, schools can punish student speech only if it will cause a substantial disruption or violate the rights of others.

Socioeconomic Disparities Many of the early school discipline cases were brought to ensure that the rights of less - advantaged students were protected.

Those involving weapons and violence have increased to nearly 40 percent of all K — 12 public school discipline cases since 1993.

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In any case, theological schooling centers on disciplines of spirituality.

In extreme cases, where parents are actively undermining the school's discipline procedures, head teachers will be able to obtain parenting orders through Court.

The school also has an assistant principal who helps with major student discipline cases that are ongoing and pervasive and is the lead administrator on school climate and culture issues, Schweitzer said.

The other thing Rebecca is if we think about... obviously that's the end result, children being either suspended or excluded because the manage - and - discipline model doesn't work for them and they are moved out of the school, or pushed out of the school I some cases after their behaviour escalates.

We have strengthened teachers» powers to tackle bullying and have made clear that teachers can discipline and investigate cases of bullying outside school.

Working with HGSE students, she has developed case studies focusing on particular dilemmas of justice in schools and school districts like ethics of grade inflation, eighth - grade promotion and retention policies, lottery - based school assignment, disciplining socially fragile children, and teacher firings.

For many of these youth, the pipeline starts early; their experiences in school with zero tolerance discipline policies have led to unnecessary criminalization of nonviolent behaviors and, in some cases, nearly tripled the occurrence of suspensions and expulsions.

This is particularly the case for EL learners, who typically master decoding and build reading fluency during the primary grades when basic stories are used, but who are more likely to struggle as the language of middle and high school text becomes more complex and more discipline specific.

At the same time, an increasing number of cases have appeared in lower courts that involve students and families suing schools for failing to provide adequate discipline within school facilities.

The big stories will be NAEP scores, the Janus Supreme Court case, gubernatorial elections, school discipline, and school ratings.

Appellate - level court cases define case law, generate media coverage, influence public perceptions, and can be tracked over time as an empirical indicator of the broad parameters of court climate toward school discipline.

We add to this discussion our findings that the legal understandings underlying school discipline policies depart in significant ways from the case law on which they are assumed to be based, according expansive rights and protections to students, even as the courts have tended to side with school authorities.

In any case, the Philadelphia results point to the importance of looking at a range of outcomes beyond discipline rates by race, and to allowing for heterogeneity at the school level when studying district - level reforms.

School discipline today is profoundly shaped by legal understandings that are only partially and indirectly related to formal regulation and case law.

In addition, school discipline court cases increasingly have involved student disability.

To discern the larger contours of the legal climate facing schools, we analyzed all appellate - level federal and state court cases in which school efforts to discipline and control students have been challenged.

Special education students thus gained additional protections related to school discipline, particularly in cases in which infractions could be attributed to the individual's disability.

Just as relatively few U.S. high schools are responsible for the majority of our dropouts, it may also be the case that relatively few schools are responsible for our discipline disparities.

In recent years courts have grown much more likely to defer to the decisions of school officials in cases involving school discipline, but the volume of such cases has continued to increase.

He highlights a specific case of an incident in which a student is disciplined for throwing food in a school cafeteria, emphasizing of the role of the school's Student Justice Panel (SJP), a panel composed of student leaders to work on discipline issues, in resolving the issue.

«It's far too common in schools for educators to wait for discipline problems to emerge and then handle them on a case - by - case basis,» said Smith.

By 2016, after just a few years under the new discipline policies being praised and copied around the country, Broward County schools had the highest ratio of cases involving weapons in Florida.

Last month, an opinion piece on Bloomberg.com encouraged the DoE to withdraw their guidance and let schools and districts manage their discipline policies without oversight — despite clear evidence that prior to the 2014 guidance, African American students and other groups were (and in many cases still are) more likely to receive heavier punishment for the same offenses than white students, and to be suspended at a higher rate.

Except in the case of excessive force or cruel and unusual punishment, a teacher or other member of the instructional staff, a principal or the principal's designated representative, or a bus driver shall not be civilly or criminally liable for any action carried out in conformity with State Board of Education and district school board rules regarding the control, discipline, suspension, and expulsion of students, including, but not limited to, any exercise of authority under s. 1003.32 or s. 1006.09.

A majority of a quorum of a panel of the commission shall have final agency authority in all cases involving the revocation, suspension, or other disciplining of certificates of teachers and school administrators.

Summary: This article presents a case for alternate discipline measures rather than detention and in - school suspension.

A new report released by UCLA's Civil Rights Project adds to a growing collection of data that makes the case against using suspensions and so - called «zero tolerance» policies to discipline middle and high school students.

In this article, she presents statistics about the increase in school suspensions and student arrests and describes individual cases that demonstrate the senselessness of harsh discipline practices.

Minnesota advocates for reducing racial disparities in school discipline are taking their case to Washington, D.C. this week.

In some cases, schools target students consciously: using out of school discipline as a nefarious means to filter students who need more academic, social and emotional supports, including children with special needs or those in foster care.

Unless final firing rests with a district's superintendent and its elected school board representatives accountable to voters, districts will assume that, even when they press a discipline case, they will probably be overruled in the end.

She made the case that changing our approach discipline in our schools is a huge challenge, and that both students and adults need to develop new skills to help build a stronger school community.

Using one case study from sports (the Vancouver Giants hockey team) and one from education (Hackney Schools Borough in London, England), the authors illustrate how the six components of uplifting leadership combine the hard and soft skills that are often set against each other in traditional leadership practice: counterintuitive thinking combined with disciplined application; dreaming with determination; collaboration with competition; metrics with meaning; pushing and pulling people into change; and long - term sustainability with short - term success.

The study found that Georgia's tuition tax credit program was funneling taxpayer dollars into private schools that were «condemn [ing] homosexuality on religious grounds; [p] unish [ing] gay students by excluding them from admission and scholarships or expelling and disciplining them because they are gay; [u] s [ing] textbooks and curricula that are harshly anti-gay — some even comparing gays to rapists and murderers; and [e] xpel [ling] or disciplin [ing] students in some cases for simply tolerating homosexuality.»

In some cases, the school's discipline policies are excessive or unduly punitive; in others, students who are not «making the grade» or who need special services are encouraged to leave.

In this case, a district principal gets advice on discipline from the Equity Project Charter School.

That federal guidance helps teachers and schools reduce exclusionary discipline like suspensions and encourages proactive approaches to address the causes of misbehavior and hold students accountable in the inevitable cases when students make the wrong choices, known as restorative practices.

Schools are «taking a new look at their discipline procedures, and in many cases have modified their discipline procedures significantly to reduce the number of suspensions and expulsions,» he said.

The Education Practice Group advocates for appropriate and meaningful educational opportunities for children in poverty, including a focus on discipline cases and disrupting the school to prison pipeline, particularly for African American and Latino youth who are disproportionately impacted by these policies.

This time, the bitcoin mania, which has dwarfed even the Tulip Bulb lunacy, should become the posterchild graduate school case study for not only finance, but also psychology, sociology, and perhaps other disciplines.

In other cases, these schools may partner with other graduate schools that offer family therapy degrees so that students can participate in a dual degree program, providing them with two degrees: one in a mental health discipline, the other in ministerial studies.

Scientists from multiple disciplines offer an evidence - based case for integrating social, emotional, and academic development into all schools.

The Parent Project directly addresses the following Risk Factors of the Youth Level of Service / Case Management Inventory Assessment Tool: General offenses, Restlessness, Risk taking, Aggression, Physical violence, Crimes against person, Antisocial behavior, Substance abuse, Poor parent - child relationships, Harsh or lax discipline, Poor monitoring / supervision, Low parental involvement, Antisocial parents, Abusive parents, Family conflict, Poor school attendance and performance, Antisocial - delinquent peers, and Gang membership.