As the city and its police union enter their fifth month of contract negotiations, the two groups are finally delving into a historically fraught, much-anticipated topic: discipline for Portland ...

Consistent consequences are important to managing student behavior, says the author of a new book on discipline.

The vast majority of the behavior issues at Lawrence middle and high schools are now dealt with using restorative justice practices, and the school district is planning to expand the discipline ...

Portland Catholic school baseball team apologizes after 'racial hate speech' used in cheer The baseball team of a private Catholic school in Portland apologized to the community after an athlete used ...

After input on school disciplinary practices, the Carson City School Board has adopted its restorative discipline plan for the 2023-24 school year. Tasha Fuson, associate superintendent of educational ...

In the 2021 school year, nearly half of the state’s public and charter school districts over-suspended at least one demographic of students. Black students were disproportionately suspended in most of ...

Talking back to the teacher in class? Detention. Arriving late to class every day? Suspension. Discipline in schools has followed that pattern for generations, but a new philosophy of restorative ...

Jal: As with many of the things we discuss here, restorative justice is an idea that is admirable in theory but difficult to pull off in practice, in particular because it is so misaligned with much ...

Seven years after outcry over disparities in punishment of disabled and minority students, Spokane Public Schools has, along with many school districts in Washington, worked to change its approach to ...

As millions of children settle into an uninterrupted academic term, widespread classroom disorder is undermining efforts to reintroduce students to in-person learning. This increased disorder ...

A debate over aspects of Worcester Public School’s (WPS) discipline policy broke out at Thursday’s school committee meeting between Worcester Superintendent of Schools Rachel H. Monárrez and school ...