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Chapter 222: School Discipline Law

Supplemental Information and History

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  • Know Your Rights: Navigating a Suspension in the Boston Public Schools (Boston Bar Association, 2019)

    • Spanish

    • Cape Verdean Creole

    • Simplified Chinese

  • DESE Student Discipline Data Report (last updated December 10, 2020)

  • Department of Elementary and Secondary Education student discipline resources and information (January, 2019)

  • Lawyers’ for Civil Rights, Unfinished Business: Assessing Our Progress on School Discipline Under Massachusetts Chapter 222 (September, 2018)

  • Disabling Punishment: The Need for Remedies to the Disparate Loss of Instruction Experienced by Black Students with Disabilities (April, 2018)

  • DESE Report: Calculating Disparity or Significant Disproportionality in Disciplinary Suspension or Expulsion (February, 2018)

  • Boston Bar Issue Statement: School-to-Prison Pipeline (January 12, 2018)

  • DESE Student Discipline Data Report (last updated November 30, 2018)

  • Children’s Law Center of Massachusetts Chapter 222 PowerPoint presentation (May, 2017)

  • The Civil Rights Project Suspended Education Report: data and resources (March, 2017)

  • Suspended Education in Massachusetts: Using Days of Lost Instruction Due to Suspension to Evaluate Our Schools(March, 2017)

  • MA Appleseed report, “School Discipline in Massachusetts – How Are We Doing?” (Spring 2016)

  • Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice report, Not Measuring Up: The State of School Discipline in Massachusetts (December, 2014)

  • Press Release on Not Measuring Up (December, 2014)

  • Commissioner’s supplemental memo on the regulations (April, 2014)

  • Summary of Changes to Proposed Amendments to Discipline Regulations (April, 2014)

  • Commissioner’s Memo on School Discipline Regulations (April, 2014)

  • MA OSS Risk by Student Demographics (March, 2014)

  • MA OSS Rates for Selected Schools (March, 2014)

  • Power Point presentation about the law (2013)

  • Study of the Cost of Implementing the Student Discipline Law (November, 2013)

  • Letter sent to Governor Patrick encouraging him to sign bill (August, 2012)

  • A fact sheet explaining the details of the bill (June, 2012)


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