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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...
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...
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...
Cyberbullying / Juvenile Court / Juvenile Law / School Discipline / Social Media / Special Education / Tech
by Patrick Hoover · Published April 10, 2013
Last week, Maryland’s legislature passed a bill prohibiting cyberbullying against minors. Known as “Grace’s Law,” in memory of the 15-year-old victim of cyberbullying who committed suicide in Maryland last year after repeated cyberbullying attacks,...
Criminal Law / Education / Juvenile Law / School Discipline
by Patrick Hoover · Published March 29, 2013 · Last modified September 28, 2019
In January, the Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC), released a comprehensive report and petition entitled, “Police in Schools are not the answer to the Newtown Shooting.” DSC is a non-profit dedicated to protecting students’ rights...
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