{"id":11117,"date":"2014-02-13T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=11117"},"modified":"2014-02-12T23:02:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T03:02:08","slug":"shifting-away-from-zero-tolerance-improving-school-discipline-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/shifting-away-from-zero-tolerance-improving-school-discipline-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting Away from Zero-Tolerance?  Improving School Discipline Policies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Shifting%20Away%20from%20Zero-Tolerance%3F%20%20Improving%20School%20Discipline%20Policies...\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><meta content=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/img\/disc.data.crdc.png\" \/><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">U.S. DOE and DOJ\u00a0Release School Discipline Guidance Package<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/ocr\/docs\/crdc-2012-data-summary.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/img\/disc.data.crdc.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><strong>Goal:<\/strong> Improve school discipline and school climate<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reality:<\/strong> Kids with disabilities, especially minority kids, far more likely to be suspended, expelled, arrested, restrained than non-disabled kids.<\/p>\n<p><em>Each year, significant numbers of students miss class due to suspensions and expulsions\u2014even for minor infractions of school rules\u2014and students of color and with disabilities are disproportionately impacted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DOE and DOJ developed a package of guidance information that includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/ocr\/letters\/colleague-201401-title-vi.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Dear Colleague letter<\/span><\/a> describing how schools can meet their legal obligations under federal law to administer student discipline without discriminating against students on the basis of race, color or national origin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/policy\/gen\/guid\/school-discipline\/guiding-principles.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Publication about &#8220;best practices&#8221;<\/span><\/a> describing three key principles and related action steps to guide state and local efforts to improve school climate and school discipline<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/policy\/gen\/guid\/school-discipline\/appendix-1-directory.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Directory of Federal School Climate and Discipline Resources<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/safesupportivelearning.ed.gov\/school-discipline-compendium\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Online Catalog<\/span><\/a> of School Discipline Laws and Regulations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/press-releases\/us-departments-education-and-justice-release-school-discipline-guidance-package-\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/press-releases\/us-departments-education-and-justice-release-school-discipline-guidance-package-<!--more--><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The transformed CRDC makes public long hidden data about discipline in schools. Get a good visual summary of all kinds of information about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>suspensions<\/li>\n<li>expulsions<\/li>\n<li>arrests<\/li>\n<li>restraint and seclusion<\/li>\n<li>student retention<\/li>\n<li>and&#8230; the disparate rates between disabled and non-disabled\u00a0kids<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/ocr\/docs\/crdc-2012-data-summary.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/ocr\/docs\/crdc-2012-data-summary.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. DOE and DOJ\u00a0Release 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, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/shifting-away-from-zero-tolerance-improving-school-discipline-policies\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1370,241],"tags":[1326,1306,386,1146,1144,1145],"class_list":["post-11117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discipline-behavior","category-school-improvement","tag-discipline","tag-discrimination","tag-disproportionality","tag-expulsions","tag-school-climate","tag-suspension"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11117"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11125,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11117\/revisions\/11125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}