SENATE DOCKET, NO. 2768        FILED ON: 1/22/2020

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

None

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
 Court assembled:

 The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act to interrupt the school to prison pipeline.

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PETITION OF:

SENATE DOCKET, NO. 2768        FILED ON: 1/22/2020

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-First General Court
(2019-2020)

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An Act to interrupt the school to prison pipeline.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

 SECTION 1. Whereas, after a years of making improvements to decrease the suspension and expulsion rates, in compliance with Chapter 222 was placed into law, the rates began to increase again.  A new approach will be to request The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to track the following: Suspension and Expulsion, including students being removed from classrooms in class grades K through three (3).

 SECTION 2. DESE should track school districts with high rates of suspension and expulsion, including students being removed from classrooms and have the problem school districts begin using tools for corrective actions.

 SECTION 3. DESE should inform the problem school districts of their problems, in compliance with Chapter 222, that must be corrected. 

 SECTION 4. DESE should publish the results of the problems after tracking the problem school districts.