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In Texas, keeping kids in school and out of court
- 12-01-2011
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By Claudio Sanchez/NPR
The sort of offenses that might land a student in the principal's office in other states often send kids in Texas to court with misdemeanor charges. Some schools have started rethinking the way they punish students for bad behavior after watching many of them drop out or land in prison because of tough disciplinary policies. In a downtown Houston municipal court, Judge David Fraga has presided over thousands of cases involving students "ticketed" by school police. His docket is still relatively small at the moment, with only 45 to 65 cases per night. I suspect probably when school is in full bloom, probably we'll have between 125 [and] 150," Fraga says. (more...)
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