Tag Archives: Trustees praise Dallas’ effort to ban most out-of-school suspensions and rethink its discipline policies

Faced with data showing that the district disproportionately punishes its Black students with exclusionary policies, Dallas is closer to banning discretionary out-of-school suspensions and drastically rethinking what the district’s in-school suspensions should look like to keep students on track. At Thursday’s board briefing, DISD officials outlined options to overhaul discipline that included creating a new position at high school and …

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