Student achievement and safety are suffering due to poor discipline in Texas schools. We can return order to Texas schools by empowering teachers and demanding discipline transparency.
Key points:
- Disciplinary incidents, including serious offenses against students and teachers, are increasing in Texas public schools.
- This disorder is the result of schools refusing to enforce discipline policies or suspend students.
- Schools were pressured to adopt these policies by the federal government and by ideologically motivated organizations.
- Texas should reject anti-exclusionary disciplinary reform and return to enforcing school order.
- The Texas Legislature can empower teachers to maintain order by giving them tools to remove students from classroom and providing transparency into school order.