... pushed many students out of schools and into the juvenile justice system for minor behavioral infractions and non-violence offenses. The failure on behalf of these policies to create safer schools calls for reform and the implementation of evidence-based alternatives to school discipline ... challenge the very foundation of Zero-Tolerance policies and call into question the justification for enforcing such strict rules with no proven beneficial outcomes. Researchers were also interested in determining whether these policies were effectively addressing the issues they were intended to rem...

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