7 Reasons Why Children Need Recess
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Category Archives: Behavior / Discipline
Justice Department Settles with Florida in Class Removals Discrimination Case
On August 3, 2021, the Department of Justice reached a settlement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with Volusia County Schools (Florida) to address allegations that the district punished Continue Reading →
Sleep Disorders, Truancy and Student Needs: A Complicated Mix
I have a student with a sleep disorder and emotional issues. How do the compulsory attendance laws and a student with special education needs intertwine? Good question. All states have Continue Reading →
Students with Disabilities Face Harsher Discipline
“Feds investigate claims that black and disabled students face harsher discipline in Richmond”
Keeping Students with Disabilities in School
Students with disabilities are presently suspended at much higher rates than other students in school districts across Texas and nationwide. In 2014, Jim Comstock-Galagan, Executive Director of the former Southern Continue Reading →
Does Your Child Struggle with School Activities? Request Positive Behavioral Interventions in the IEP
My daughter has autism. She has trouble connecting with other kids in recess and other school activities. She wants to participate in after school activities but she will need help. Continue Reading →
Feds Sue: Georgia’s Segregated Schools for Kids with Disabilities Are Illegal
On August 23, 2016, the United States Department of Justice filed suit against the State of Georgia for discriminating against thousands of public school students with behavior and emotional disabilities Continue Reading →
Taking Away Recess as Punishment – Does it Help?
“77 percent of school principals report that they withhold recess as punishment, even as they simultaneously sing the praises of recess as a factor in academic, cognitive, and social development. Continue Reading →
Are We Closing the Discipline Gap?
A new report published in February 2015 by the Civil Rights Project UCLA documents “gross disparities in the use of out-of-school suspension experienced by students with disabilities” and other subgroups. Continue Reading →
Shifting Away from Zero-Tolerance? Improving School Discipline Policies…
U.S. DOE and DOJ Release School Discipline Guidance Package Goal: Improve school discipline and school climate Reality: Kids with disabilities, especially minority kids, far more likely to be suspended, expelled, arrested, Continue Reading →
