The United States Department of Education’s Plan to Change How School Districts Approach Discipline and to Require the Reallocation of Resources

On January 8, 2014, the United States Department of Education (DOE), through its Office of Civil Rights (OCR), issued a “Dear Colleague” letter, which identified a nationwide problem of unequal application of discipline to students of color in our public schools and provided notice regarding how the OCR intends to approach investigation of related complaints going forward.  Read more here.