Creating Safe Passage: Collaborative Approaches to Equitable School Discipline Reform (VUE 42)

Efforts to address school discipline disparities throughout the country are being led by a broad range of stakeholders – including community organizers, nonprofits, advocates, district leaders, teachers’ unions, researchers, funders, legislators, and other groups. Bringing these stakeholders together to examine identity-based disparities, exclusionary policies, and punitive practices – and to work collaboratively toward designing interventions – has the great potential to create positive and healthy school climates where all students can find “safe passage” from early childhood to young adulthood.