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ACLU Comment on Groundbreaking Federal School Discipline Guidance

Key Tool Issued to Help End School-To-Prison Pipeline

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 8, 2014.  The Department of Education and Department of Justice today released federal guidance to assist schools in administering discipline in a nondiscriminatory way and to provide alternatives to overly punitive school discipline practices.

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In the guidance, the agencies have stated what we have known to be true for a long time: race discrimination in school discipline is a real problem. Students of color are punished…

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