... Long Beach School District made headlines when it became the first school district in the country to make uniforms mandatory for its elementary and middle school students. According to school officials in Long Beach, California, attendance and test scores improved, incidents of students fighting decreased by ... , Milwaukee, Nashville, New Orleans, Phoenix, Seattle, and St. Louis -- have schools with either voluntary or mandatory uniform policies, mostly in elementary and middle schools. Many educators say that uniforms are more cost effective than regular clothing (LaPoint). The average...

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... on school campus? Definitions For the purpose of this study to determine if uniforms have a positive role on behavior we will conduct surveys of parents, teachers, students, and administration to ask how they feel the new uniform policy has affected students in the classroom (and on school campus). We will compare discipline referrals from before the uniform policy and after, or ... , teacher training, and community effort along with statistical analysis to determine the results for the study. Samples from the national data are analyzed and the author determines that elementary and midd...

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