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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...
Education / HooverLaw In The News / Maryland State Bar Association
by Patrick Hoover · Published November 27, 2013
Patrick Hoover and former associate Bryan Utter of HooverLaw wrote about zero tolerance in the Maryland State Bar Association’s November 2013 edition of the Bar Bulletin. Read the full article here.
In addition to the publicly available school district budgets for 2013, the Maryland State Department of Education has also released data on the number of students receiving of special education services. It should come...
Fresh off the press, HooverLaw’s Summer Newsletter is now available. Learn about Zero Tolerance Policies from one of Maryland’s leading Education and Juvenile Law Attorneys, Mr. Patrick Hoover, Esq. Featuring articles: “Turning our Schools...
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...
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