Jim'Mare Crosby was charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault in April 5 shooting at Erie High Court testimony, records show he had faced repeated discipline throughout school career Records ...

Students with disabilities who are involved in violence or other serious incidents at school are being punished in the same way as other students who commit comparable acts, according to a federal ...

With the intention to bring awareness to racial inequity, over classification, and meeting quotas, apparently educators made some difficult decisions following the Obama-era rule on racial disparities ...

Special education students in Texas are more likely to receive some of the harshest punishments in the classroom, according to an analysis of state education data. Experts say that tracks with other ...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has called into question the use of prone restraint on special education students. This week the office found that Oakland Unified School ...

If minority students in special education classes receive more severe discipline than their white peers, the state and federal Departments of Education now have the tools to tackle the problem. The ...

School divisions identified as being too heavy-handed when it comes to disciplining minority special-education students now must put money toward early efforts to keep children out of special ...

When: Penn Manor School District board meeting, April 6. What happened: Penn Manor is one of 61 Pennsylvania school districts with “significant disproportionality” in special education discipline, ...

CORRECTION: Black students make up just over 6% of the total enrollment in Grand Ledge Public Schools’ special education program. That number was incorrect in an earlier version of this story. GRAND ...

When I went to school, corporal punishment was still a thing; California banned it in 1986. Did we miss it, really? No, we didn’t. Last September, new discipline guidelines for California schools were ...