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.
Highlights the top seven education priorities identified by 42 governors in their 2017 State of the State addresses and provides examples of how states plan to approach these priority areas.
Hawaii is working to ensure its schools are safe and supportive. This page features school climate information for Hawaii, including a list of grants the State has received; State discipline and...
The Hawaii Department of Education is proposing changes to its misconduct and discipline policy, creating a new offense of sexual harassment and increasing the offense classification of bullying.
One morning, about a year ago, a Bunker Hill Community College employee found a young woman making a sign on a piece of brown cardboard. She’d written “I NEED — SOME MONEY. A SANDWICH*.” At the bottom of the sign the asterisk was clarified, “*a graphing calculator.”
Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.”
Beacon Hill lawmakers are weighing legislation aimed at helping make sure young people in Massachusetts have a better understanding in how the country's political system works and their place in it.