Texas Schools’ Study Questions Reliance on Harsh Disciplinary Policies
Today, the Council of State Governments released a new report that helps to raise awareness about the importance of dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Entitled Breaking Schools’ Rules: A Statewide Study of How School Discipline Relates to Students’ Success and Juvenile Justice Involvement, the report is the most in-depth of its kind, examining the academic, disciplinary, and juvenile court records of nearly a million Texas secondary school students. Sadly, it confirms the national trend that LDF has observed in its Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline initiative: educational inequity, excessive reliance upon harsh disciplinary practices, and extreme racial disparities in
