Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
This bill strengthens federal data collection on exclusionary school discipline and creates competitive grants to reduce suspensions, expulsions, and punitive practices. It bans corporal punishment, seclusion, many restraints, and certain suspensions, funds trauma-informed supports, and establishes a joint task force to study pushout of girls of color.
Progressives focus on equity, trauma-informed supports, and bans on harmful practices
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a substantive policy change that is well-defined in purpose and contains substantial concrete elements (comprehensive definitions, specified data collection elements, a competitive grant program with required and prohibited uses, task force composition and reporting).
This bill strengthens federal data collection on exclusionary school discipline and creates competitive grants to reduce suspensions, expulsions, and punitive practices.
It bans corporal punishment, seclusion, many restraints, and certain suspensions, funds trauma-informed supports, and establishes a joint task force to study pushout of girls of color.
The bill prohibits grant funds for hiring school-based law enforcement, surveillance equipment, arming staff, or Homeland Security and law enforcement partnerships.
Ambitious, costly, and ideologically polarizing content reduces prospects; incentive/grant structure improves feasibility somewhat but large spending and SRO/ICE restrictions are significant hurdles.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a substantive policy change that is well-defined in purpose and contains substantial concrete elements (comprehensive definitions, specified data collection elements, a competitive grant program with required and prohibited uses, task force composition and reporting). It integrates with existing statutory authorities and includes explicit funding authorizations. Key gaps are in enforcement and operational detail—particularly procedures for allocating funds, monitoring compliance beyond reporting, and statutory consequences for entities identified as having discriminatory disciplinary patterns.
Progressives focus on equity, trauma-informed supports, and bans on harmful practices
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Progressives focus on equity, trauma-informed supports, and bans on harmful practices
Likely broadly supportive, viewing the bill as advancing racial equity and trauma-informed education.
Emphasizes reductions in criminalization of students, investment in counselors, and transparency through stronger data.
Generally favorable to reducing unnecessary exclusionary discipline, but cautious about costs, school safety tradeoffs, and federal prescriptiveness.
Would weigh evidence, pilot outcomes, and implementation details.
Likely skeptical or opposed, viewing the bill as federal overreach that removes traditional disciplinary tools and restricts law enforcement partnerships.
Concerned about school safety and local control.
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Ambitious, costly, and ideologically polarizing content reduces prospects; incentive/grant structure improves feasibility somewhat but large spending and SRO/ICE restrictions are significant hurdles.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives focus on equity, trauma-informed supports, and bans on harmful practices
Ambitious, costly, and ideologically polarizing content reduces prospects; incentive/grant structure improves feasibility somewhat but larg…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a substantive policy change that is well-defined in purpose and contains substantial concrete elements (comprehensive definitions, specified data collection elemen…
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