Tag: Suspension
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Claimed Capacity, Missing Voices: How Policy Gaps Fail Students—and Why Families and Communities Must Be at the Table
Every child deserves to feel a sense of belonging at school. Yet for many students with disabilities or trauma histories, school becomes a place of stress rather than opportunity. Across the state, children with complex behavioral and emotional needs are being excluded from learning environments not because they lack potential, but because our systems are…
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A Lever Long Enough: Changing Exclusionary Discipline Policies In North Carolina and Beyond
Love Our Children NC used this concept to change the short-term suspension policy in New Hanover County, North Carolina. The non-profit organization was co-founded by me and Veronica McLaurin-Brown in March 2021. We are dedicated to ending exclusionary discipline in our state. We are working to change harmful suspension and seclusion policies and statutes. We…