Showing posts with label schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label schools. Show all posts
Friday, June 01, 2018

Gov. Abbott: raise the age at which youth are considered children, but only for purposes of gun-storage rules (?)

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In his plan to address school shootings, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called on the Legislature to "to raise the age at which someone is cons...
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Wednesday, October 05, 2016

Why train drivers to tolerate aggressive police tactics when we could just end aggressive police tactics?

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Grits had wondered if the proposal to educate Texas ninth graders about police interactions at yesterday's Texas Senate Criminal Justic...
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Sunday, October 02, 2016

What should we teach ninth graders so police won't shoot them?

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What might Texas ninth graders be taught about interactions with law enforcement that could prevent police from shooting as many of them lat...
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Friday, August 26, 2016

No rampant crime wave resulted from massive decriminalization of Texas juvenile life

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Grits focuses mostly on the adult justice system, which in Texas still has the largest prison population in the nation, so it's sometime...
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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Houston ISD employs more cops than counselors, social workers

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Houston ISD is one of four out of the nation's ten largest school districts analyzed in this article which employs more police officers...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

On arresting kids for their electronics

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Once they figure out it's battery charger, not a bomb , couldn't the arrest and two nights in juvie for a 12-year old kid of Indian ...
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Students cited for terroristic threat in volume

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From a story in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Oct. 1) about new federal reporting requirements for public schools regarding student discipl...
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Monday, October 27, 2014

TPPF, TX Appleseed: Texas should decriminalize truancy

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Derek Cohen of the Texas Public Policy Foundation and Deborah Fowler from Texas Appleseed had an op ed in the Dallas News this week (Oct. 2...
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Thursday, October 09, 2014

New laws aimed at reducing tickets in school worked: 83% fewer last year

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New laws aimed at reducing tickets given to students for in-school misbehavior resulted in a whopping 83 percent year-to-year drop in the nu...
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Juvenile crime, incarceration down; extra capacity at TDCJ?

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Mistakenly thinking the Legislative Budget Board had finally released its much-anticipated long-term prison population projections, I click...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Texas youth in detention less likely to receive high-school credit than nationwide

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Via this Waco Tribune Herald article , I ran across this study published in April by the Southern Education Foundation: " Just Learning...
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Friday, November 29, 2013

McLennan Sheriff ignores data, research on ill-conceived DARE program

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In McLennan County, where District Attorney Abel Reyna's hard-nosed approach to plea bargaining has resulted in a dramatic uptick in t...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

New limits on Texas ISD cops giving tickets for breaking school rules

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The Texas Tribune has a feature on one of the more significant juvenile justice reforms from the 83rd session: Eliminating most Class C tick...
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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Perfumed perpetrator wouldn't get ticket under new Texas statute

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Don't know how I missed this 2011 Austin story, but if you did too, check out this TV news report about a girl given a Class C misdeme...
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Dallas County truancy courts doing vast volume, serve as cash cow, lawuit alleged

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"Texas processes more truancy cases through its court systems than all other states combined," according to a complaint (pdf) fi...
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Sunday, May 12, 2013

Roundup: Private prisons, primary contests, tech law and privacy

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Here are a few odds and ends that haven't made it into full Grits posts but deserve readers' attention: Court of Criminal Appeals ...
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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Mug-shot media, tickets in school, and yet more discovery debate: Previewing Senate Criminal Justice highlights

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Having gone through highlights from the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee agenda on Tuesday, March 26, let's turn our attention to...
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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Senate Committee: End ticket writing for education code violations, relax 'zero tolerance' in school discipline

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The Senate Criminal Justice Committee released its interim report (pdf) to the 83rd Texas Legislature earlier this month, and Grits was int...
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Thursday, December 27, 2012

'School shootings, no matter how horrific, do not justify creating an Orwellian surveillance state in America'

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Ron Paul, of all people, expressed views similar to my own "pox on both their houses" perspective on the recent policy debates in ...
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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Reforming state jails, prosecution as grant management, and other stories

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Just a few odds and ends that didn't make it into their own, individual posts: Narcotics task force cops robbed drug dealers instead o...
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