Video & Transcript Research : 'student discipline'

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TX
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  • In addition, the current discipline processes are often insufficient to address the dangerous students
  • Student discipline problems are linked to teacher attrition.
  • Our educators want to ensure all students learn, all students.
  • There has been an uptick in discipline problems with the students.
  • There has been an uptick in discipline problems with the students and behavior.
Summary: The committee heard a series of school safety and discipline bills, beginning with SB 870, which would codify an attorney general opinion allowing local school boards to decide whether school marshals may openly carry, conceal carry, or store a firearm in a secure safe on campus. The bill was laid out with no public testimony and left pending. The chair then moved to a combined discussion of SB 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1924, all focused on school discipline, teacher authority, and student safety. Senators Perry and Creighton described the package as a response to rising classroom disruptions, assaults on teachers, and concerns that districts lack effective tools to maintain order. SB 1871 would expand teacher removal authority, require return-to-class plans before a student removed for certain conduct can return, make some serious offenses mandatory for placement in juvenile justice settings, and provide telehealth mental health services through a consortium. SB 1872 would require expulsion to a JJAEP for assaults on teachers or school volunteers and extend certain expulsion-eligible conduct to off-campus offenses. SB 1873 would restore the prior understanding that in-school suspension is not subject to a three-day limit. SB 1874 would grant teachers immunity from disciplinary action for reporting discipline violations or acting in compliance with Chapter 37. SB 1924 would restore authority for local police and school district police to issue Class C citations for school offenses and require criminal referrals for students posing an imminent threat or assaulting a teacher, with a substitute clarifying referral rules when a citation has already been issued. The committee adopted the substitutes for the bills and moved them forward. Invited witnesses from teacher and administrator groups largely supported the overall goal of stronger discipline and safer classrooms, while asking for refinements. The Texas Classroom Teachers Association testified that teachers need more autonomy to remove disruptive or violent students and that classroom removals should not mean removal from learning. Superintendents from San Angelo, Grandview, and Wiley ISDs supported the bills’ emphasis on safety, expanded ISS flexibility, mandatory placement for serious offenses, and telehealth mental health services, but asked for more local control, flexibility for Districts of Innovation, more than one campus behavior coordinator in large districts, clearer timelines for return-to-class plans, and more precise definitions for disruptive conduct. Several witnesses stressed that teacher retention and student learning are being harmed by current discipline problems, while some members raised concerns about vague standards and the risk of overuse or public humiliation through citations and removals.
NV
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  • We all reap the rewards of their efforts in empowering students with their knowledge, skills, and values
  • As a professor with UNLV’s College of Education, they do compensate mentors, even mentors for student
  • we’ve been working a lot of years on investigating those that don’t pass Praxis and the impact on student
  • While myself and other educators have made a meaningful impact on our students due to the J-1 program
  • So I just want to thank them and all of their colleagues for coming and educating our students.
Bills: SB175, SB277, SB374, SB400
TX
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  • Our discipline package. The discipline package. That's right.
  • In addition, current discipline processes are often insufficient to address dangerous students' behaviors
  • Student discipline problems are linked to teacher attrition.
  • I just want to emphasize the impact of classroom student discipline and what has happened over the last
  • To the last question, there has been an uptick in discipline problems with the students and behavior.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 3/24/26

Education Policy

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  • You are giving students the discipline.
  • This particular student group.
  • from students of St. Francis as well. from students of St. Francis as well.
  • parents and students. parents and students. >> Represent<01:13:27.679> Mueller.
  • We have student testifiers two minutes. We have student testifiers as<01:20:04.960> well.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Common Education Feb 11th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Common Education

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  • HB 4274 deals with military students and military school choice.
  • made me think of just one follow-up, but what about districts that have virtual options for their students
  • If you are a virtual student, obviously, you are learning on a computer, and so we're not going to limit
  • So, students can opt out, but districts can't opt out, correct? Thank you for the question.
  • were left for minutes told to calm down and sent back to the classroom, at which time the student just
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Education Policy

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  • left at the discretion of the local high schools or the local education authorities denying these students
  • Authorities denying these students dual enrollment opportunities that are available to students in high
  • All this bill does is allow each student at...
  • This bill does is allow each student at any high school in the state of Alabama to be able to take a
  • To your point on what you're talking about regarding what our students are exposed to in our schools
Bills: SB140, HB102, SB133, SB34
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/11/2026 - Senate Education

Education

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  • Students can't learn and teachers can't teach if administrators do not support them on discipline.
  • It's not always about discipline.
  • I agree that student discipline should be handled thoughtfully and transparently, but I do believe this
  • I'm all for having new strategies to help student discipline so that our students can succeed.
  • I'm all for having new strategies to help student discipline so that our students can succeed in the
Summary: The Senate Education Committee heard a presentation from Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne focused on school safety, academic improvement, career and technical education, ESA oversight, and teacher pay. Horne argued that students cannot learn without safe schools and urged more funding for school police officers, citing threats and violent incidents. He also highlighted Project Momentum, tutoring, attendance, classroom phone restrictions, the Student Industry Partnership, expanded ESA participation, and his call to use Proposition 123 land trust funds for direct teacher raises. In response to a question, he said the department is using AI tools, residency checks, and investigators to reduce ESA fraud and abuse. The committee then considered SB 1074, which would require written certification from a principal or administrator before a student removed for discipline could return to class. Horne and the sponsor said the bill would support teachers and hold administrators accountable, while opponents from the Arizona Education Association argued it was redundant, could undermine administrator judgment and FERPA-protected information, and would not address the root causes of classroom disruption. The bill passed 4-3. The committee also heard SB 1327, as amended by a strike-everything amendment requiring Arizona public universities to adopt and report on research security policies to protect against foreign adversary threats and preserve federal funding eligibility. Support came from the sponsor, State Armor, and the Arizona Board of Regents, and the amended bill passed 5-2. Members next approved SB 1475, which bars students convicted of, or admitting to, certain serious offenses from participating in school-sponsored interscholastic activities, with some discussion about rehabilitation, school discretion, and whether a readmittance process should exist. Supporters said the measure was needed for accountability and uniformity after a particularly egregious case; opponents warned it could remove an important rehabilitative outlet. The bill passed 4-3. The committee then advanced SB 1582 and SB 1583, both related to school safety interoperability funding and technical corrections; SB 1582 passed 4-2, and SB 1583, as amended, passed 4-2. Finally, SB 1598, which appropriates $500,000 for school and community gardens, passed unanimously 5-0 after testimony that gardens serve as hands-on learning spaces and supportive environments for students.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education 2ND REVISED Apr 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am

Education

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  • Student success. Thank you. Will there be questions of the nominee?
  • House Bill 1937 has two changes to the Communications with Students Act.
  • This bill is Addressing discipline, we've heard multiple times how discipline is an issue in the classroom
  • as elementary school discipline?
  • We have got to get discipline and respect back in the classroom.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 2/24/26

Education Policy

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  • adult to be alone with one student. adult to be alone with one student.
  • students and staff. students and staff.
  • investigate all student malreatment. investigate all student malreatment.
  • students who need an individual support. students who need an individual support.
  • student learning more clearly. student learning more clearly.
Bills: HF3489, HF3550
TX
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  • That's why I'm a law student. So my name's Alice Min. I'm, as I just said, a student.
  • This bill aims to ensure transparency online for both current students and prospective transfer students
  • than four years per student per program.
  • This bill targets only faculty discrimination while ignoring the more common student-on-student religious
  • A law student at UT Austin.
TX
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  • I'm also a third-year law student. students at Texas Law.
  • Students who are here on a visa. students who are immigrants, and students who are Black and Brown students
  • , students do participate in immigrant students. student groups on campus quite actively and it increases
  • the surveillance of those students. students and their student groups.
  • What engages students, what challenges students, and what helps them grow.
OK
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  • or student organization security fees based on their public expression.
  • To me, I don't understand why we would be teaching students how to disarm a live firearm.
  • So I do not want to water down the protections of the students.
  • My student has deleted it,' you think that would suffice under the current language.
  • But the priority is ensuring that we don't have predators going after our students.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education Mar 5th, 2025

S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education

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  • We are proud of the work we are doing for our students and our community to know that every rural student
  • We attend many events that the students have an opportunity to participate in with other JROTC students
  • So if District A sends a student to District B, District A receives the, the funding for that student
  • Um, not for that student.
  • So, does the student, is it anticipated that the student gets a grade for this course?
Bills: HB20, HB120
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education 3RD REVISED Feb 24th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Education

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  • So this says for students in grades 6 through 12.
  • meal to move to the no-cost or free student category.
  • well-behaved students.
  • , teacher mental health, and student and teacher safety.
  • , they are going to take action and remove that student.
KY
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  • Student discipline is important for obvious reasons, and I just want to remind you that over the years
  • <01:31:06.680> discipline<01:31:07.160> data was analysis of student discipline data
  • was analysis of student discipline data in<01:31:07.720> Kentucky<01:31:08.120> schools.
  • And the laws that apply to disciplining those students under the code of conduct is different from other
  • report more concerns with student report more concerns with student discipline<01:35:45.240>
Summary: The Education Assessment & Accountability Review Subcommittee approved the minutes from its October 14 and November 4 meetings and also approved the Office of Education Accountability report analyzing student discipline data in Kentucky schools. The main presentation came from KDE Commissioner Dr. Robby Fletcher on implementation of House Bill 257, which he said has two major parts: selection of a statewide college entrance exam through a new procurement process, and development of locally designed indicators of quality for accountability. On the college exam, Fletcher explained that the state had to reopen procurement after Senate Bill 197, with the RFP released May 21, vendor questions handled through the Finance and Administration Cabinet, proposals due June 22, and scoring and review expected in July and August, with a vendor decision not likely until October. He emphasized that the exam is a norm-referenced college-readiness measure, not a test of Kentucky academic standards, which are assessed by the KSA. Members asked about the science requirement in statute, the possibility of multiple vendors or district choice, and whether the CLT could participate; Fletcher said vendors must address science in the RFP, multiple vendors could be possible, and any vendor could submit a proposal if it meets the rubric. He also noted that ACT and SAT differ in structure, that either can meet college-readiness benchmarks, and that there were no major complaints about the SAT during its first year of use. The second major topic was the locally developed indicators of quality under House Bill 257. Fletcher said these are intended to let districts measure themselves against their own goals rather than compare districts statewide, while still aligning with Kentucky standards. He described examples such as achievement, growth, student well-being, safety, fiscal responsibility, civics, internships, apprenticeships, project-based learning, and defenses of learning. He said districts may use local assessments such as MAP, STAR, and I-Ready alongside state data, and that local models should be developed with families, community members, and workforce partners. He added that KDE is providing technical assistance, has applied for a federal CGSA grant, and will use a one-time $15,000 cost offset for districts implementing local accountability models, with a superintendent webcast planned for August.
TX
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  • Specifically, the per-student allotment would increase. from $10 for each student in average daily attendance
  • We will still face shortfall of a hundred and eight per student and to comply with the law.
  • When students are socially, emotionally, and mentally well. the students feel safe, they can better focus
  • . students, and educators.
  • Our students cannot learn if they are not well.
Bills: SB260, SB263, SB293, SJR18
OK
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  • Senate Bill 1975 strengthens access to advanced placement opportunities for students across Oklahoma.
  • Every student has access to a physical location to take their proctored AP exam.
  • It also ensures that all students have access to Horizon, the state's online learning platform.
  • performance results for better health outcomes for our students.
  • results of benchmark assessments in grade K through 8 available to parents and guardians of those students