"… ore resorting to punishment.The program launched in 2009 when the Board of Education asked schools to find alternatives to suspension and expulsion. In the pre …"

"… ecalled Jane Kim, a former community organizer who as a member of Board of Education needed to approve all expulsions.“That’s not what I expected to do,” …"

"… took over as Balboa’s principal. That is when the San Francisco Board of Education dissolved the district’s discipline task force and created a new task fo …"

"… f school districts across the country. In 1994 the Minnesota Department of Education was the first to embrace restorative justice. At least two rigorous evalua …"

"… ons, according to data reported by schools to the California Department of Education.Because of its no-nonsense approach, Kern ended up with an expulsion rate …"

"… students, according to data the school submitted to the U.S. Department of Education as part of a national survey for its Office for Civil Rights.Numbers aside …"

"… bles other than race.A separate report released in October by the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, highlighted evidence …"

"… ty Juvenile Court. He testified in 2010 before the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor that more than 90 percent of referrals from schools to courts in …"

"… igation into harsh school discipline.   The Kern County Board of Education voted Tuesday to overturn the 11-year-old’s expulsion for alleged   …"

"… e to have common sense along with it,” said 35-year Kern County Board of Education member Ronald Froehlich. He said another disciplinary action would have be …"

"… through school, is just too great.”   The Kern County Board of Education normally faces very few expulsion appeals — only six last year — despi …"

"… arents and community leaders. In July, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education announced an initiative to address "the rising rates and disparities in di …"

"… ers that California’s schools must submit to the state’s Department of Education after the close of each academic year. The department adds up the raw numb …"

"… of school and why.    In fairness, the California Department of Education posts a disclaimer on its website, warning that the department’s staff r …"

"… in Southern California’s Orange County told the California Department of Education that they had erred in their reporting. That county’s initial report of …"

"… d.Vivas' story is not unique.According to data from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR), more than three million students are suspe …"

"… state study. Although Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education spokesman JC Considine said the state suggests that school districts offer …"

"… aid Nakisha Lewis, a project manager with the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a Cambridge, Mass. group that advocates for more equitable distribution o …"

"… class.Sonia Chang-Diaz, Senate co-chair of the state's Joint Committee on Education, said the bills, which are aimed at preventing kids from dropping out of s …"

"… expelling students in that state. If adopted by the Maryland Board of Education, the new rules would narrow the broad spectrum of offenses for which …"