...Woodland Hills is one of 10 school districts around the nation selected to participate in a public-private partnership initiative to explore discipline alternatives to suspension and expulsion. The initiative is a partnership between the American Association of Administrators, a nationwide superintendents group, and the Children's Defense Fund and is being funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies.
...Last school year, 19 of the 20 expulsions in Woodland Hills were issued to black male students, as were 90 percent of the more than 2,400 suspensions, according to statistics reported to the state Department of Education.
One other Pennsylvania district is included, the Harrisburg School District. The others are in Texas, South Carolina, California, New Mexico, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Mr. Johnson said being included in the initiative will not bring the district substantial funds.
But it will provide the district with "lots of expertise that we don't have" regarding cutting-edge research and model discipline policies that revolve around restorative justice and trauma-informed care rather than zero tolerance.
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