Worcester County’s Pocomoke High School opened its doors as usual to 352 students on a bright but chilly Thursday last December. A mix of mellow pop hits played in the background, and students at the ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James says Buffalo Public Schools must make sweeping changes to how it disciplines students after an investigation found widespread disparities and civil rights ...

SAN DIEGO — The superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District plans to look into the district's discipline policy that's sparking concern among parents. Parents expressed concerns about the ...

The Buffalo School Board reaches an agreement with the New York State Attorney General’s office to reform disciplinary ...

Jal: As with many of the things we discuss here, restorative justice is an idea that is admirable in theory but difficult to pull off in practice, in particular because it is so misaligned with much ...

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The Milford Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to remove restorative practices from the student code of conduct for all grades. The decision comes just one school year after the decision to ...

To the editor: The article on the Los Angeles Unified School District’s new discipline policy, which focuses more on “restorative justice” and less on punishment, goes to the core of why public ...

Why do students disobey their teachers, fight or act out in other harmful ways? And what’s the best way to fairly discipline all students? In the past two decades, Anne Arundel County schools have ...

After Pamela Thompson's sixth-grade daughter got into a dispute this year with another student at Missouri City Middle School, Thompson was struck by how the discipline process has changed. A similar ...

In a major step away from punitive discipline for students, the San Diego Unified School Board is replacing in-school suspensions with alternative-to-suspension programs and requiring that schools ...