Sentences with phrase «school enforces discipline»

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As a fitting final touch, discipline is often enforced by the «punishment» of being required to remain in school after hours.

''... The churches do not offer solace and acceptance of the prevailing order; the schools can not maintain discipline over their pupils; the police and courts can not maintain orderly processes of action (they often infringe the very laws they are supposed to enforce); the hospitals can not cure; the jails burst at their seams; and, finally, the government itself fails to function with the respect and authority it requires.

Gove is pressing on with his own agenda this week, with a raft of education announcements including promises to extend the school day to ten hours and enforcing community - service - style litter - picking to improve discipline.

According to the complaint, the school's rigid discipline code was enforced on students without regard to their special - needs status, and students with special needs were expected to behave exactly as other students.

When districts react to OCR threats by choosing not to enforce their discipline codes in high - poverty, high - minority schools, it's the well behaving poor kids who suffer «disparate impact.»

As much as empirical challenges may seem to render this debate theoretical, it is a critical one for policy: the authority to issue federal guidance to schools on discipline disparities comes directly from administrative authority to enforce the Civil Rights Act, which requires either different treatment or disparate intent.

While discipline measures like suspensions are intended to enforce school rules and improve student behavior, the negative outcomes of such policies should give us pause.

In her field work in Mississippi, Tieken says she has heard «horrific stories about the kinds of discipline happening and policies not being enforced;» for example, parents not being allowed into the school when they should be, or administrators ignoring required procedures in referring children to special education.

Districts (and charter schools) will simply decide that enforcing any discipline code is too risky.

Federal policymakers must strike a balance between federal oversight and local control by working with practitioners and other education stakeholders to select, establish, and enforce effective and equitable school discipline policies.

Educators should understand that besides enforcing discipline in the classroom they should also encourage and promote life - long learning and the importance of staying in and completing their high school education.

That 2014 civil rights guidance — jointly issued by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice — put schools on notice that they may be found in violation of federal civil rights laws if they enforce intentially discriminatory rules or if their policies lead to disproportionately higher rates of discipline for students in one racial group, even if those policies were written without discriminatory intent.

Ministers hope the presence of former solders, sailors and airmen in the classroom will help instil school discipline along with other measures to enforce school rules.

The Trump administration could rescind the education department's 2014 guidance, which tells school districts that the office may enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and investigate schools where discipline policies have a «disproportionate and unjustified effect» on students based on race.

Once the schools close they can be replaced by «no - excuses» charter schools which enforce a kind of rigid discipline which for many feels more like preparation for being an obedient worker drone than the training needed to be innovative leader.

Although, officially, schools have extremely rigid codes of behavior, in practice many teachers find the students unmanageable and do not enforce discipline at all.

These are mostly white teachers from elite colleges and universities across the country who help enforce the new style of discipline in New Orleans schools.

A report, Charter Schools and the Achievement Gap, finds that, though charter schools on average perform no better than traditional public schools, urban «no - excuses» charter schools — which often use intensive discipline to enforce order — demonstrate promising rSchools and the Achievement Gap, finds that, though charter schools on average perform no better than traditional public schools, urban «no - excuses» charter schools — which often use intensive discipline to enforce order — demonstrate promising rschools on average perform no better than traditional public schools, urban «no - excuses» charter schools — which often use intensive discipline to enforce order — demonstrate promising rschools, urban «no - excuses» charter schools — which often use intensive discipline to enforce order — demonstrate promising rschools — which often use intensive discipline to enforce order — demonstrate promising results.

Besides the documented evidence that the presence of law enforces leads to overuse of harsh school discipline and exacerbates the school - to - prison pipeline, they can also end up being used by ICE as tools to identify and deport undocumented immigrant children and their families.

Charter schools can write and enforce discipline policies that make it possible to remove students who are needy or challenging, said Suzanne Greenfield of Advocates for Justice and Education, an organization that offers free legal assistance to students facing expulsion.

The most - important wake - up call came last month when news leaked out that the Department of Education was scaling back investigations of civil rights violations — including overuse by districts of harsh school discipline against Black and other minority children — as part of the administration's overall refusal to enforce civil rights laws.

It's partly the end result of the general public (mostly parents) refusing to allow schools to enforce discipline, and partly due to administrators who are too afraid of lawsuits to enforce the rules that are in place.

Most States acknowledge the authority of school districts to make rules governing school business, including the authority to adopt and enforce a student discipline code.

NSU Teacher Education Program Candidate Regularly assumed role of lead teacher; Supervised an average of 23 students in classrooms, halls, cafeterias, schoolyards and on field trips; Enforced the school's student discipline code to deal with problem situations; Preserved the confidentiality of student records and information at all times; Determined student strengths and weaknesses through STAR testing and weekly assessments; Nurtured students» desire to meet and / or surpass their Accelerated Reader goal; Set up lesson materials, bulletin board displays and demonstrations; Fostered oral language development and critical thinking skills during literary discussions; Differentiated instruction for individual student needs; Encouraged personal responsibility while maintaining positive learning environment for all learners; Maintained communication between school and parents via student planners, and parent / teacher conferences.

In states like California where zero - tolerance discipline policies are enforced, they've been handing out more suspensions than diplomas every year.2 And students are not being suspended for school safety issues; on the contrary, close to half of the suspensions were for «willful defiance,» which can include things like disrespectful behavior or dress code violations.

Other types of childhood adversity can also include being homeless, living in a war zone, being an immigrant, moving many times, witnessing a sibling being abused, witnessing a father or other caregiver or extended family member being abused, involvement with the criminal justice system, attending a school that enforces a zero - tolerance discipline policy, etc..