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Designed to help stakeholders better understand the policy environment surrounding current school discipline practices in our country. This compendium provides information on school discipline laws and administrative regulations for the United States, including the 50 States, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico.
Provides a unifying framework for schools, families, and communities to understand, select, and organize their learning supports (i.e., strategies, programs, and practices used to create conditions to enhance learning).
Texas requires schools to have emergency plans and conduct safety drills. But a lot of decisions about safety are left to school districts and charter schools.
Tammy Smith-Hinchey, Nurse Coordinator with the St. Joseph School District (SJSD) in Missouri, wants to see the district educate students and families on coping mechanisms for opioid use, and focus on providing mental healthcare in the schools and community.
The University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) in San Antonio and the Karnes City Independent School District (ISD) have been awarded grants totaling more than $2.7 million from the U.S. Department of Education’s Mental Health Service Professionals Demonstration Program to train school counselors, social workers, psychologists, or other mental health professionals qualified to provide school-based mental health services.
The U.S. Department of Education announced it will distribute another $1.5 million in federal Project School Emergency Response to Violence (SERV) grant funds to the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District in Texas, where 19 children and two educators were killed in a mass shooting in 2022.
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona issued a statement exactly one year since the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Cardona noted the significant needs of the community, investments in school safety and mental health, and continued support to help students, families, and educators cope with the grief and trauma.
Federal, state and local leaders discussed how to prevent targeted school violence, including best practices for identifying, assessing, and intervening when a student shows signs of concerning behavior.
The School Safety Initiative, led by the FBI, is a proactive effort to prevent school tragedies by sharing research with schools and creating threat assessment teams comprised of school counselors, staff, and school resource officers.