Reinstating Commonsense School Discipline Policies
Headline: Federal Government Orders Return to Commonsense School Discipline Policies
What it does: Agencies must issue new guidance, enforce Title VI protections, coordinate with states, revise military school codes, and report on discriminatory-equity-based discipline.
- Local schools will receive new federal guidance on discipline within 30 days.
- State and local systems may face federal enforcement for discriminatory discipline.
- Military-family school discipline rules will be revised to better protect children.
Summary
This order rejects school discipline approaches the government calls "discriminatory equity ideology" and directs a return to commonsense discipline to protect students and classroom safety.
The Secretary of Education, working with the Attorney General, must issue new guidance to state and local school systems within 30 days, enforce civil-rights protections in discipline, coordinate with Governors and State Attorneys General, and deliver a report within 120 days. The Defense Department must update discipline rules for children of military families.
The report must inventory past Title VI investigations, review nonprofit roles, and propose model discipline policies.
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