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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.
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP) is collaborating with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) to help increase the number of mental health professionals to support public schools and address student mental health needs.
School districts in the Charlotte, NC area are seeking new funding from the North Carolina General Assembly to fund mental health services, including mental health-related staff.
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.