The "Ending PUSHOUT Act of 2025" seeks to address and eliminate discriminatory and excessive exclusionary discipline practices in schools. Its core purposes include strengthening data collection on these practices, particularly their disproportionate impact on students of color, and preventing the criminalization and pushout of students, especially Black and Brown girls. The bill also intends to reduce unnecessary loss of instructional time and support students with mental health needs or trauma. To achieve this, the bill mandates the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights to annually collect comprehensive data on various disciplinary actions, including suspensions, expulsions, and law enforcement referrals. This data must be disaggregated by numerous demographic factors such as race, ethnicity, sex, disability status, and low-income status, to identify patterns of overuse and discriminatory application. An annual public report to Congress will detail these findings, highlighting schools and agencies with problematic disciplinary practices. The legislation establishes "Healing School Climate Grants" to be awarded competitively to local educational agencies and nonprofit organizations to reduce exclusionary discipline, prioritizing schools with high disparities. Grant recipients must prohibit out-of-school suspension or expulsion for students in preschool through fifth grade for non-serious incidents, and for all K-12 students for insubordination, truancy, or appearance policy violations. The bill also bans corporal punishment , seclusion , and most forms of mechanical or chemical restraint , along with life-threatening physical restraints, except under strict safety conditions. Grant funds must be used for policy evaluation, professional development on trauma-informed and culturally sustaining practices, and implementing evidence-based alternatives, while prohibiting funds for school-based law enforcement or surveillance. Additionally, the bill creates a Joint Task Force to End School Pushout of Girls of Color, composed of diverse stakeholders (excluding law enforcement), to study discipline disparities and recommend interventions. This task force will focus on understanding how exclusionary practices contribute to the criminalization of various marginalized student populations. To support these initiatives, the bill authorizes $500,000,000 annually for the Healing School Climate Grants and the Joint Task Force. An additional $500,000,000 is authorized each fiscal year to strengthen the Office for Civil Rights' data collection efforts.