Schools can apply for funding and then use it for “age-appropriate” classroom instruction, materials, educator training and resources to help families support healthy social media use, according to the Healey administration.
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Nearly 15 years after student discipline reform, school suspensions in Mass. are falling. Are emergency removals taking their place?
In 2012, after child advocates spent years trying to reduce punitive suspensions in schools, Massachusetts passed sweeping education reforms, kickstarting a longstanding policy shift away from exclusionary discipline methods. Nearly 15 years later, out-of-school suspensions are falling, but emergency removals — a mechanism allowing administrators to immediately remove a student from school due to severe behavior for up to two days — have increased.
Posted inOpinion
Youth success is the key to ending violence
IT’S BEEN HAPPENING almost every week, usually in one of the city’s disadvantaged neighborhoods. Another young man, and sometimes a boy still years from manhood, is shot and often loses […]
Posted inOpinion
Youth mental health trends are alarming
AS WE FACE the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is little doubt that the effect on our mental health has been profound. For young people – teens and […]
