Restorative Practices in Schools Act of 2022

United States117th CongressS-3973Senate
Updated: Mar 31, 2022

Summary

Restorative Practices in Schools Act of 2022 This bill requires the Department of Education to award grants for local educational agencies to replace existing zero-tolerance disciplinary polices and punitive discipline in elementary and secondary schools with restorative practices. Additionally, the bill directs the Government Accountability Office to study and report on the use of discipline practices that funnel students out of school and toward the juvenile legal and criminal legal systems (i.e., the school-to-prison pipeline).

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Timeline

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HR-7320: Restorative Practices in Schools Act of 2022

Introduced in House

  1. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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  2. Introduced in Senate

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