VISALIA: What Happened to Suspension Rates When a California School District Decided That ALL Its Kids Mattered? [WitnessLA.com]

Samantha Sangenito 4/6/154:00 AM

VISALIA CHANGES COURSE
California’s Visalia Unified School District used to suspend their students at an appalling clip. For instance, for the 2009-2010 school year—a time when other districts were getting pressure to improve their stats—Visalia still suspended a flabbergasting 40.5 percent of its secondary school students. But then its superintendent and a few of his administrators got together and made some profound changes in how they disciplined kids.
So what did they do and how did they do it?
We’ll get to that in a minute. First a very brief overview of school discipline in America.

[For more of this story, written by Celeste Fremon, go to http://witnessla.com/education...all-its-kids-matter/]

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