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When a youg Massachusetts high school couple recently posted their pre-prom photo shoot on FB – all dressed up for their big night and holding realistic looking assault airsoft rifles, instead of that special...
The Obama administration issued a series of guidelines this Wednesday calling for school systems to relax their harsh disciplinary measures that often introduce the criminal justice system into the lives of students, effectively widening...
Does zero tolerance achieve its intended effect?
Florida’s Boward County Public Schools had the highest arrest record among districts in the state. Now, it’s following the lead of other school districts around the country and revising its zero tolerance policy. Read...
Yesterday, the Maryland State Board Education once again voted to finally abandon the dangerous and long since discredited policy known as Zero Tolerance (ZTP). Marking landmark change in the policy governing student discipline, suspension and...
By: HooverLaw Staff Following a recent trend of “relaxing” Zero Tolerance policies, the State of Maryland Board of Education is moving towards adopting a new set of disciplinary regulations. The regulations will closely follow...
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