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Shaken by post-pandemic disruptions, some states take a harder line on school discipline

by Elaine S. Povich, Stateline Parents in Boone County, Kentucky, were outraged this past January when a ninth grader who had been suspended a year earlier for threatening violence against his fellow students returned to class as soon as his punishment time was up. The parents packed a school board meeting, excoriating the county superintendent […]