Sentences with phrase «school discipline reform»

Clearly, there is a great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should focus both on the impact of school discipline reforms and on their potential unintended consequences.

This is part of a forum on school discipline reform.

Let's turn this petition into a movement for school discipline reform!

Government leaders have taken steps to encourage school discipline reform.

Now we can add school discipline reform — especially as it relates to the federal role in civil rights enforcement — to the list.

Much of the liberal and education establishment has thrown its weight behind school discipline reform.

In addition to supporting school discipline reform in Massachusetts, Leuzzi also recently met with U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to urge her not to rescind crucial federal guidelines that reduce racial discrimination in school discipline.

Emmanuel Felton of the Hechinger Report looks at complaints by teachers in four states about school discipline reform.

Pressure ramped up in recent days as City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced that the Council would be stepping in to initiate school discipline reform during her State of the City address on Wednesday.

Though school discipline reform is an imperative for the most ideological progressives, the debate over the issue has revealed some rifts within the de Blasio coalition.

When Jonathan Brice was hired to tackle school discipline reform in the Baltimore public schools in 2008, about one in five students was being suspended out of school in the 85,000 - student district each year.

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.

Individual districts prioritizing school discipline reform, like Denver and Baltimore, also began to attract national attention.

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

The four - year - old guidance, a keystone of federal efforts to spur school discipline reform, has long been the bete noir of so - called conservative reformers everywhere.

The DSC Days at the Capitol brings together parents, students, educators and education advocates who seek to raise awareness and build support for urgently needed school discipline reform.

A few outlets — the New York Times, Washington Post, US News among them — addressed the claims that the shooter had slipped through the cracks because of the district's school discipline reform program.

Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-2311 to speak with your members of Congress about US ED's approach to school discipline and how it should handle school discipline reform and the Obama administration's «Rethink School Discipline» policies.

I learned that we are entering an exciting period in school discipline reform whereby educators, policy makers, and researchers are beginning to critically appraise their SEL initiatives with and eye toward increasing considerations about equity and culture.

Even conservative reformers, many of whom backed DeVos because of their dependence on her family's fortune (and have been pleased with the administration's roll - back of the Obama administration's school discipline reform efforts) are becoming disillusioned.

USC Social Work and Public Policy graduate student Lisa Higuera connects stories from her childhood to today's push for school discipline reform.

On January 25 at 4 pm, the Fordham Institute will host a debate on school discipline reform.

At the start of 2017, Steinberg and Lacoe published a useful overview of what we do — and more of what we don't — know about school discipline reform.

A study by the University of Pennsylvania's Matthew Steinberg and Mathematica's Johanna Lacoe, and published by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, also found a differential response to school discipline reforms in Philadelphia, with high - poverty schools mostly ignoring the district's new policy and / or suspending even more students for serious infractions.

They examine the research on school discipline reform and conclude

I totally understand and respect why many members of PIE Network would speak up in support of the Obama - era policy on school discipline reform.

School discipline reform has been a topic for debate at PIE Network convenings for the past several years, and should remain so in the future.

Note: School discipline reform has been the subject of several articles by Mike Petrilli in recent weeks.

Emmanuel Felton of the Hechinger Report looks at complaints by teachers in four states that school discipline reforms are making their classrooms harder to manage.

Teacher quality and school discipline reforms are part of the solution.

To help grassroots education organizers and advocates across the country understand what's at stake in the ESEA rewrite, we've put together the below analysis of the portions of the comprehensive Senate bill that relate specifically to the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools» key issue areas of sustainable community schools, charter school accountability, school discipline reform and high - stakes testing.

Harris made this declaration during one of two hearings that touched on school discipline reform — a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Trump Administration's proposed budget for education programs.

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...

None of this is a surprise to Dropout Nation readers or to honest scholars of school discipline reform.

Robert Pondiscio, the vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute (and, like his boss, Mike Petrilli, a longstanding opponent of school discipline reform), was particularly bellicose in his defense of suspending protestors, declaring that children should be punished for their own good.

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.

The Council of State Governments Justice Center has published a guide to school discipline reform for state decision - makers titled Realizing the Full Vision of School Discipline Reform.

The study does mention that it did an analysis of Oakland Unified academic achievement after implementation of its school discipline reform effort to compare results with that of L.A. Unified.

It isn't shocking that Dominic Zarecki's shoddy research is being championed by Max Eden and other foes of school discipline reform.

We'll talk about some local efforts, local successes in school discipline reform and school policy reform, and some of the challenges to implementation.»