The New York City Department of Education’s $100 million push to implement “restorative justice” instead of stricter school discipline has been a bust — with violent incidents doubling to 4,200 reports this year and “chronic absenteeism” spiking to a whopping 35%, a new study claims. The major shift in policy at city public schools started in 2015 under then-Mayor Bill de Blasio, when the DOE began requiring principals to obtain approval from the central office before suspending students in grades K–2. But “what began as an alternative became a mandate, forcing administrators to abandon exclusionary options regardless of school context,”...
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