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.
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