S 3973
117th Congress
Senate
Education
Restorative Practices in Schools Act of 2022
Introduced: March 31, 2022
Introduced by:
Bennet, Michael F.
Democratic
· Colorado
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Everywhere this bill has been
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 31, 2022
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Mar 31, 2022
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Restorative Practices in Schools Act of 2022
This bill requires the Department of Education to award grants for local educational agencies to replace existing zero-tolerance disciplinary polices and punitive discipline in elementary and secondary schools with restorative practices.
Additionally, the bill directs the Government Accountability Office to study and report on the use of discipline practices that funnel students out of school and toward the juvenile legal and criminal legal systems (i.e., the school-to-prison pipeline).
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
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