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Marianne Nee Spiotta – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative research study will explore how educators perceive culturally responsive School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports' (SWPBIS) impact on racial disparities in school discipline. At the time of this study, the literature on the effectiveness of culturally responsive SWPBIS in terms of racial disparity was mixed.…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Discipline Policy, Racial Discrimination, Cultural Differences
Lacoe, Johanna; Steinberg, Matthew P. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2018
Beginning in the early 1990s, states and districts enacted zero-tolerance discipline policies that relied heavily on out-of-school suspensions. Recently, districts nationwide have revised these policies in favor of more tempered disciplinary responses. In 2012-2013, Philadelphia reformed its discipline policy to limit suspensions for nonviolent…
Descriptors: Zero Tolerance Policy, Discipline Policy, Educational Change, Principals
Stamm, Mark E.; Frick, William C.; Mackey, Hollie J. – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2016
This study explored the moral complexity of student drug and alcohol policies that are often disciplinary, punitive, and exclusionary in nature. The Ethic of the Profession and its Model for Students' Best Interests (Shapiro & Stefkovich, 2016; Stefkovich, 2013), a professional ethical construct for educational leadership and for school…
Descriptors: School Policy, Ethics, School Districts, Board of Education Policy
Aspen Institute, 2021
The report contains real-world, proven school climate strategies to guide policymakers in building a comprehensive and coherent state-wide approach for improving school climate. It features 12 recommendations linked to existing state policy examples policymakers can use to build a comprehensive, coherent state-wide approach for improving school…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, School Policy, State Policy, Policy Formation
US Senate, 2015
This hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions examines creating positive learning environments for all students beyond seclusion and restraint. Following an opening statement by Honorable Tom Harkin (Chairman, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions) and Honorable Johnny Isakson (U.S. Senator from the State of…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Access to Education, Educational Legislation, Equal Education
Zaslaw, Jay – Principal Leadership, 2010
Over the past decade, many schools have adopted zero-tolerance policies as a means to curtail negative student behavior. Such policies persist although "there is as yet little evidence that the strategies typically associated with zero tolerance contribute to improved student behavior or overall school safety." School suspension and…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Conflict Resolution, Discipline Policy, Juvenile Justice
Surface, Jeanne; Stader, David; Graca, Thomas; Lowe, Jerry – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2012
Educational leaders have a substantial degree of control over students and generally have a tremendous influence on the decisions that they make. District administrators are already involved in comprehensive efforts to stem sexual harassment, teen violence and bullying; therefore, they may be well positioned to identify and address the problem of…
Descriptors: Violence, Dating (Social), School Districts, Safety
Norton, Michael H.; Gold, Eva; Peralta, Renata – Research For Action, 2013
The Stoneleigh Foundation of Philadelphia has historically focused its strategic investments on improving outcomes for youth involved or at risk of involvement in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. Stoneleigh began its support for youth courts by providing a fellowship award from 2009 to 2011 to public interest lawyer Gregory Volz to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Surveys, Models, Law Enforcement
Cardichon, Jessica; Roc, Martens – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2013
Middle and high school students subjected to harsh school discipline policies and practices such as suspensions and expulsions are more likely to disengage from the classroom and course work, and increases their chances of dropping out, according to this new report from the Alliance for Excellent Education. The report recommends implementing…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, School Culture, Outreach Programs
Fogt, Julie B.; George, Michael P.; Kern, Lee; White, George P.; George, Nancy L. – Behavioral Disorders, 2008
This study explored administrators' attitudes about the use of physical restraint in their school settings. Administrators of day treatment and residential programs for elementary students with emotional and behavioral disorders in the Mid-Atlantic states were surveyed on their attitudes toward, and the use of, physical restraint within their…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Discipline, Emotional Disturbances
Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 1985
Reviews a Pennsylvania higher court decison in which a student sued the school board for reducing her grades as punishment for misconduct during a school outing. The court found in the student's favor. The punishment must fit the crime. (MD)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Court Litigation, Discipline Policy, Grading

Bartlett, Larry – Journal of Law and Education, 1987
Reviews two recent court decisions involving student discipline and academic grade reductions: "Campbell v. Board of Education" (Connecticut), and "Katzman v. Cumberland Valley School District" (Pennsylvania). The "Katzman" decision states clearly that academic grades should not be affected by activities unrelated to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Court Litigation, Discipline Policy
DePaul, Samuel A.; Downing, Camille P. – American School Board Journal, 1998
A Pennsylvania countywide, centralized alternative school called CLASS--Creative Learning Alternatives for Student Success--encourages students to stay in school, master the basic skills, and develop the cooperative attitudes needed for success. Eight districts now participate and enrollment has grown to 73 students in grades 7 through 12. (MLF)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Discipline Policy, High Risk Students, Nontraditional Education
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. – 1984
This manual, an update of the 1979 publication, "Pennsylvania Guidelines for Student Discipline," is intended for use by Pennsylvania school districts as they review or revise their student discipline codes. It presents a structure for responses to student misconduct, which lists student misbehaviors by type and assigns appropriate…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Discipline Policy, Educational Legislation, Guidelines

Uskiewicz, Vincent D.; Willower, Donald J. – Urban Education, 1973
Reports a study which investigated perceived pupil control ideology consensus among teachers, their colleagues, and their principal, and its relation to teacher job satisfaction, using as subjects a sample drawn from the eastern and central regions of Pennsylvania. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Elementary School Teachers, Individual Power, Interprofessional Relationship
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