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Students and parents press Buffalo board for suspension reform, seek limits on preschool–third-grade removals
Summary
Student activists and parent members of an ad hoc committee urged the board to replace suspension practices—especially for pre-K through third grade—with restorative, supportive approaches and to adopt proposed language for the student code of conduct.
Student members of the Teen Activist Project and members of an ad hoc district committee urged the Buffalo Board of Education on June 18 to adopt discipline reforms that would reduce or eliminate suspensions for very young learners and replace punitive responses with restorative, supportive approaches.
Quinn Carroll, speaking for the Teen Activist Project, described student involvement in district community meetings and said the group sent a…
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