Breitbart: Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is urging the Trump administration’s Departments of Justice and Education to revise the Obama-era school discipline policy that discourages school districts from reporting threats to law enforcement in the name of social justice for minority students.
Rubio writes in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, shooting rampage by former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people and had not been arrested prior to the shooting despite multiple signs of aggressive or threatening behavior.
“In the wake of the February 14, 2018 horrific shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, disturbing reports have indicated that federal guidance may have contributed to systemic failures to report Nikolas Cruz’s dangerous behaviors to local law enforcement,” the senator states.
In his letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Rubio refers to the Obama administration’s 2014 Dear Colleague Letter that mapped out requirements for public school disciplinary policies that would put an end to the “school-to-prison-pipeline” for minority students. The policy threatened schools with risk of losing federal funding if they showed higher numbers of referrals to law enforcement for minority students than for other students – even if the behaviors in question were unacceptable.
The guidance, writes Rubio, “discouraged schools from referring students to local law enforcement.”
“The 2014 guidance encouraged schools to emphasize ‘constructive interventions’ over certain disciplinary actions,” the senator says. “This guidance also states that school policies should ‘[e]nsure that school personnel understand that they, rather than school resource officers and other security or law enforcement personnel, are responsible for administering routine student discipline.’” MORE
Rubio is in ‘Saving Face’ mode.
He’s a backsliding weasel.
Too late. We see right through you.
Tell me again why the Federal Government should be involved in any way with public schools established and operated by States under their own constitutions?
Rube the rino.Should hang out
with McStain.
Racist
The Obama-era school discipline policy that discourages reporting student threats should most definitely be abolished. NOW. I agree that the Fed DOE must be eliminated, but until that happens, their power to wield control over the states must be diminished.
Public schools all over America have seen the growth of student disruptive and criminal behaviors in schools. I have a friend who taught in the Minneapolis schools. He retired early because he couldn’t stand allowing the violent behavior of his students to go unpunished. The few kids who wanted to learn were being ignored in order to pamper the trouble-makers.
I know Rubio is a RINO, but I hope he succeeds in this venture – for our children and our future.
And to screw up another one of Obama’s legacy policies. 🙂
RINO douche bag.
“if it saves only one child…”
Blind hog & an acorn as they say.
These save-a-bad-kid guidelines need to be run by the victims who have experienced their effectiveness first-hand to see how well they’ve worked out for them. Maybe via a seance.
A policy he was happy to go along with when it was enacted, now he wants to play hero. Phony little worm.
His Little game won’t go much farther than 2019.
Revision? How about shredding it?