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.
Gadsden City Schools (AL), an Elementary and Secondary School Counseling grant recipient, used its grant funds to hire two counselors and two social workers. The counselors and social workers provided students with individual counseling, group counseling, and crisis intervention. The social workers liaised between the school system and partnering agencies in the community to plan activities for students.
Discusses how COVID-19 has disrupted supply chains globally making it hard to harvest, package and ship food consistently -- which affects thousands of children who depend on schools to provide nutritious meals.
OPELIKA, Ala. (WRBL) – A school counselor with a servant’s heart is making a big difference in classrooms using her own money to untangle a type of school bullying and stop students from speaking hurtful words about their classmates’ hair.
Provides information and guidance to individual and districts Comprehensive School Counseling Guidance (CSC) Programs, which are now mandatory in the state of Rhode Island.
A year after Texas lawmakers prohibited schools from suspending most young students, some Central Texas districts are still using the practice, including one that reported a surprisingly high 571 suspensions in the 2017-18 school year.
The girls attending the Houston ISD STEM magnet school, where a poster in the hallway proclaims "Sushi rolls, not gender roles," are hitting upon a stubborn problem in STEM, short for science, technology, engineering and math.
Through their Rural West Texas Mental Health Educational Learning Partnership (HELP) grant, Region 15 Education Service Center in San Angelo, TX has partnered with Angelo State University (member of the Texas Tech University system) to recruit provisionally licensed school counselors from the M.S. in Professional School Counseling program for placement in 43 participating school districts in newly created positions.
Highlights results from the Investigating Causal Effects of Arts Education Experiences: Experimental Evidence from Houston's Arts Access Initiative. What Works Clearinghouse found that this study meets WWC standards without reservations.Learn more about WWC Individual Study Reviews.