CSG Justice Center Lauds U.S. Department of Justice/Department of Education Supportive School Discipline InitiativeBy CSG Justice Center | Monday, July 25, 2011 at 11:16 am On July 21, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the launch of the Supportive School Discipline Initiative, a collaborative project to encourage effective disciplinary practices that help make classrooms safer and more conducive to learning. It will also promote evidence-based practices that reduce the likelihood that students disciplined at school will have subsequent contact with the juvenile justice system. The initiative was announced at the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, whose membership includes representatives from 12 federal agencies. |
Disparity in School DisciplineBy Mary Branham | Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 11:28 am Texas Rep. Jerry Madden, chair of the Texas House Corrections Committee, believes prisoners come in two varieties: “The ones we’re afraid of and the ones we’re mad at.” He believes students facing discipline in schools fall in those same categories. The problem, he said Tuesday, is that schools often use the same disciplinary action for both categories of students. |
CSG Justice Center Releases New Report on How School Discipline Relates to Academic and Juvenile Justice OutcomesBy CSG Justice Center | Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 10:43 am Majority of Texas Middle and High School Students Suspended or Expelled: Repeated Suspensions Predict Later Involvement in Juvenile Justice System In an unprecedented study of nearly 1 million Texas public secondary school students followed for more than six years, nearly 60 percent were suspended or expelled, according to a report released today by the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center in partnership with the Public Policy Research Institute of Texas A&M University. |
Breaking Schools’ Rules: A Statewide Study of How School Discipline Relates to Students’ Success and Juvenile Justice InvolvementBy CSG Justice Center | Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 10:27 am In an unprecedented study of nearly 1 million Texas public secondary school students followed for more than six years, nearly 60 percent were suspended or expelled, according to a report released by The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center in partnership with the Public Policy Research Institute of Texas A&M University. |
Resolution in Support of the Reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention ActBy CSG Executive Committee | Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 12:00 am BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that The Council of State Governments hereby endorses Congressional efforts to reauthorize the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act and to continue the important prevention and rehabilitation efforts it affords juveniles in the states. |
