
Jennifer Richards
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1 week ago |
chicagotribune.com | Jodi S. Cohen |Jennifer Richards
Illinois legislators on Wednesday passed a law to explicitly prevent police from ticketing and fining students for minor misbehavior at school, ending a practice that harmed students across the state. The new law would apply to all public schools, including charters. It will require school districts, beginning in the 2027-28 school year, to report to the state how often they involve police in student matters each year and to separate the data by race, gender and disability.
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2 weeks ago |
myjournalcourier.com | Jennifer Richards |Jodi S. Cohen
A short video taken inside a Jacksonville school captured troubling behavior: A teacher gripping a 6-year-old boy with autism by the ankle and dragging him down the hallway on his back. The early-April incident would’ve been upsetting in any school, but it happened at Garrison School, part of a special education district where at one time students were arrested at the highest rate of any district in the country.
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2 weeks ago |
chicagotribune.com | Jennifer Richards |Jodi S. Cohen
A short video taken inside an Illinois school captured troubling behavior: A teacher gripping a 6-year-old boy with autism by the ankle and dragging him down the hallway on his back. The early April incident would’ve been upsetting in any school, but it happened at the Garrison School, part of a special education district where at one time students were arrested at the highest rate of any district in the country.
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4 weeks ago |
businessandamerica.com | Asia Fields |Ashley Clarke |Jodi S. Cohen |Jennifer Richards
Since President Donald Trump took office, his administration laid off nearly half of the Department of Education division that handles civil rights investigations and shifted its focus. The administration halted work on thousands of pending discrimination cases while ordering investigations aligned with its priorities. Some people have spoken out about their cases being in limbo or about not receiving updates. We know there are thousands of other people who are affected.
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1 month ago |
truthdig.com | Jennifer Richards |Jodi S. Cohen
This story was originally published by ProPublica. In California, the federal government was deep into an investigation of alleged racial discrimination at a school district where, a parent said, students called a Black peer racial slurs and played whipping sounds from their cellphones during a lesson about slavery. Then the U.S. Department of Education in March suddenly closed the California regional outpost of its Office for Civil Rights and fired all its employees there.
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