With a big push from the state’s new approach to education spending, many California school districts appear to be ramping up investments in positive approaches to discipline.
The majority of the 50 largest school districts have included programs in their July 1 budgets that emphasize connecting with troubled students or offering them a chance to make amends, rather than taking more punitive actions, according to a preliminary analysis by Fight Crime: Invest in Kids California. The group is a state office of a national nonprofit organization of law enforcement officers and prosecutors.
The investments include $4.2 million for restorative justice programs, which offer a format for students to make amends and repair relationships with those they have harmed, in the Los Angeles Unified School District. They also include $2.9 million in the Elk Grove Unified School District and $1.6 million in the Santa Ana Unified School District for a data-driven approach known as “Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports,” a framework that guides the use of research-based practices and offers increasing levels of behavioral management and support.
[For more of this story, written by Jane Meredith Adams, go to http://edsource.org/2014/posit...s/70577#.VH_JrTHF-5V]
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