school discipline
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Eating disorders, school discipline, substance abuse among proposals Colorado teens seek to advance
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Teenagers from the Colorado Youth Advisory Council are pursuing three new state policies to address substance abuse, eating disorders and disciplinary actions in schools. The council on Friday presented the proposed bills to lawmakers, who voted to advance and send them to a legislative council meeting on Oct. 4 to determine if the bills would go…
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As anticipated, an effort to reform discipline in Colorado schools …
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… died at the hands of the state Senate GOP in its kill committee on Monday, Chalkbeat Colorado reports this morning. Before being substantially amended at the Monday hearing, the proposed reform would have reined in school suspensions and expulsions of early-elementary kids and public-school preschoolers. In a 3-2, party-line vote, the GOP majority on the Senate State, Veterans…
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Chalkbeat: Could rural schools use a dose of discipline reform after all?
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Education must-read Chalkbeat Colorado’s recent research into how discipline is meted out in the state’s schools suggests a pattern of unequal schoolhouse justice that may even reach out into Colorado’s rural climes. And it could be of consequence to a bill on school discipline that is now idling — on life support? — in a Senate committee. As…
