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  "id": 17886,
  "url": "https://www.the74million.org/article/nearly-15-years-after-student-discipline-reform-school-suspensions-in-mass-are-falling-are-emergency-removals-taking-their-place",
  "title": "Nearly 15 Years After Student Discipline Reform, School Suspensions in Mass. Are Falling. Are Emergency Removals Taking Their Place?",
  "summary": "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. […]",
  "authors": "Hallie Claflin",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "regulation,children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-09T16:30:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-10T05:10:00.488Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-74-education-ai",
  "source_name": "The 74 (education AI)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.the74million.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17886",
  "original_url": "https://www.the74million.org/article/nearly-15-years-after-student-discipline-reform-school-suspensions-in-mass-are-falling-are-emergency-removals-taking-their-place",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}