Evidence record 17886 · automatically gathered

Nearly 15 Years After Student Discipline Reform, School Suspensions in Mass. Are Falling. Are Emergency Removals Taking Their Place?

In 2012, after child advocates spent years trying to reduce punitive suspensions in schools, Massachusetts passed sweeping education reforms under Chapter 222, kickstarting a longstanding policy shift away from exclusionary discipline methods. The law came as the nation moved away from the Zero-Tolerance policies of the 1990s and toward efforts to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline. […]

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Published: 9 August 2026
Source: The 74 (education AI)
Category: News
Topics: Regulation · Children & education
Retrieved: 10 August 2026

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ethics.ai (9 August 2026), “Nearly 15 Years After Student Discipline Reform, School Suspensions in Mass. Are Falling. Are Emergency Removals Taking Their Place?,” evidence record 17886, https://ethics.ai/record/17886 (originally published by The 74 (education AI)).

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