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In states with few legal protections, students say they’ve been unfairly punished at school

DRM is working with families experiencing the same issues in Michigan.

Aug. 22, 2023
By Erin Einhorn

Students facing suspension and expulsion are granted vastly different rights depending on where they live, an NBC News investigation found.

“…Some of these parents said their children were disciplined without getting to plead their case in a hearing. They were banished to online classes, arrested, sent home, or encouraged to transfer to other schools in order to avoid punishment…”

Photo Credit: NBC News – “They betrayed me,” Cory Juneau Jones Jr. said of his Alabama school district. (Ashleigh Coleman for NBC News)

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