Feds unveils new guidelines for school discipline



Education Secretary Arne Duncan joined Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. yesterday to release new guidelines to help schools improve the way they handle disciplinary issues, the Washington Post reports.
While emphasizing the importance of safe schools, Duncan said a re-boot was needed to bring fairness to the process, which often discriminates against minority students.

“The need to rethink and redesign school discipline practices is frankly long overdue,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said yesterday at a school in Baltimore.


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