As the federal commission on school safety headed by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos ramps up its schedule of public forums, an unusually broad array of individuals and organizations has sent a letter imploring DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to retain federal guidelines issued by the Obama administration to combat racial disparities in school discipline.
The letter is significant both for its strong defense of students’ civil rights and because the more than 80 signatories include organizations and individuals who are not always allies on key issues.
Among them are prominent charter school organizations, superintendents of some of the nation’s largest school districts (such as Richard Carranza, the newly appointed chancellor of the New York City public schools), parent groups and the American Federation of Teachers. Signatories from California include The Broad Center, Ednovate and Green Dot California.
[For more on this story by DAVID WASHBURN, go to https://edsource.org/2018/educ...ne-guidelines/600181]
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