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Eden, Max – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2019
In December 2018, the Trump administration rescinded the Department of Education's 2014 "Dear Colleague Letter" (DCL), thus returning to local school districts and boards their traditional authority to set discipline policy. Although it was frequently described as "nonbinding guidance," the DCL was anything but. Instead, the…
Descriptors: School Safety, Educational Environment, School Policy, Discipline Policy
Eden, Max – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2018
In January 2014, the Obama administration issued a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) on school discipline. The DCL claimed that: (1) school districts rely excessively on suspensions; (2) black students are suspended at disproportionately high rates primarily because of educators' racial bias; (3) suspensions cause substantial long-term harm to students;…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, African American Students