What are the best responses to poor student behavior to maintain order in schools? In this blog post, Dr. Rachel Lissy examines the history of discipline policy in New York City Schools, and demonstrates how discipline reforms are often driven by politics, not pedagogy, and too often are designed with highly racialized impacts and intentions.

The history of the "principal's suspension" in New York City highlights the ways in which disproportionality was neither unforeseeable nor solely the result of educators' beliefs or practices. In this blog post Dr. Rachel Lissy explores how systemic neglect in the City's publicly funded social services made disproportionality predictable and inevitable.

How does restorative justice allow us to reimagine community, and create critical pathways to sustainable school improvement? In this blog post NYU Metro Center’s Reed Swier shares his professional insights as both school administrators and equity trainer to underscore the implicit value of restorative practices, and his public testimony in support of NYS’s Solutions Not Suspension Act currently before the State Senate.