Description:
This policy brief explores state-level conduct and discipline policies across the United States as a means to compare and provide models for Virginia's practices and policies as related to preschool and primary age children. Further, we investigate the intersections between the guidance recommendations for early childhood students from NAEYC (2009), the U.S. Department of Education (2016), and adopted state policy. A thematic content analysis was used to develop an understanding of individual state conduct and discipline policies, thus, allowing us to explore the ways in which state-level conduct policies contribute to, address, or work to curb the rising number of expulsions and suspensions of Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten students from public school classrooms. This nationwide snapshot allows for a contextualized understanding of Virginia policy as compared and contrasted with other states. Finally, we provide recommendations for policy actions for Virginia that serve to support young children and families in public school settings. (author abstract)
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United States
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