Scrap the Education Department’s policies on suspending students

Published March 14, 2018 5:39pm ET



If a school can’t expel or refer to law enforcement a student who endangers others, how can it keep its students safe?

Thanks to a lousy “Dear Colleague” letter sent in January 2014 by the Obama administration’s Departments of Education and Justice, schools have been fearful of suspending or expelling too many students, or reporting them to law enforcement, lest their federal funding be cut.

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