Cyber-bullying Now Grounds For Expulsion At CA Schools
July 12, 2011
School Days, EducationNews.org
At The Education Report, reporter Katy Murphy’s blog on education news, we read about a new lawthat has been signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown in California.
Bullying is grounds for suspension or expulsion in California, whether it’s done face to face or through electronic media. And if there was any doubt that Facebook and other social networks came under the state’s definition of electronic media, there isn’t anymore.
The bill, know as AB 746, or the Cyber Bully Prevention bill, was championed by