To improve these students’ prospects, more and more school districts are beginning to use restorative justice, a method that favors resolving conflicts through dialogue and mediation, instead of punishment. One school beginning to take its first steps toward this new form of discipline is in California’s Coachella Valley. Marco Vinicio González has the details.

(Español) Un informe que detalla el daño causado a las comunidades de color y a las comunidades de bajos ingresos por las políticas de intervención corporativa como el cierre masivo de escuelas, la expansión de Chárter, el exceso de exámenes de evaluación y la disciplina severa.

Presidente Obama has called on schools to stop zero tolerance policies for school discipline that have mainly affected African-American and Latino students. Each year, middle and high schools around the country suspend two million students, mostly for minor offenses. The San Francisco Unified School District is considering changing its discipline policy, seeking to reduce suspensions that can be discriminatory. Zaidee Stavely reports from San Francisco.