Discipline reform may have contributed to the violence at Douglas High School, writes Erika Sanzi, who blogs on Good School Hunting, on Real Clear Education. . . . since 2013, schools have been under enormous pressure — for good reason — to lower their suspension, expulsion, and student arrest numbers. Broward County was part of the PROMISE program (Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Supports & Education), which was intended, according to t

A Louisiana teenager who joked that the square-root sign looks like a gun has been barred from school and faces an expulsion hearing, despite being cleared by law enforcement, reports Josh Meny for KATC After online gossip inflated the math joke into a threat, the Allen Parish Sheriff’s Department searched the boy’s house and found nothing. “He did not commit a crime. He did not commit anything remotely criminal, nothing to remotely suggest any intent to do actual harm,” said