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Revolutionizing School Discipline, With a Flowchart By Ross Brenneman on November 5, 2013 1:00 PM

Harsh discipline policies are falling out of favor across the country, but Broward County, Fla., is hoping to do away with them entirely.

Broward County, home to Fort Lauderdale and one of the nation's largest school systems, approved today a major overhaul of the district's discipline policies. In place of a routine that has seen large swaths of students incarcerated, the district is implementing a system based on restorative justice and forged with input from a broad coalition of local organizations and people.

"We've done away with the phrase 'zero tolerance,'" Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said at a press conference today. "Students will not become collateral damage of the way things used to be."

The new system offers guidance in two forms: A memorandum of understanding that details terms of discipline, and a flowchart ("decision matrix") that distills that memorandum into the bare essentials. In either iteration, the understanding makes clear when exactly school trouble warrants police action. The new structure does not eliminate police influence in schools, or deprive them of any jurisdiction; this shift isn't in power, but in mindset, establishing among all parties involved in the Broward County legal system—school board, administrators, judges, attorneys, police, and sheriff—that students deserve more tolerance than they've yet been given.


As the flowchart shows, district officials want to hold police action as strictly a last recourse. Only after five successive levels of intervention fail should an arrest be made, barring imminent danger or a felony. That's an abrupt shift in a county so rife in disciplinary action that many at today's press conference referenced students throwing M&M's as a reason for suspension. (Wasting chocolate is a crime, but still.)

The centerpiece of the agreement seems to be Step Three, the point at which an officer has been brought in to consult (but not take action) and must assess a situation. In many systems, this step can lead to suspensions both in and out of school because of zero-tolerance policies. Increasingly, however, school systems have started to question such policies, with Georgia, Los Angeles, and Detroit being some of the largest examples. In place of suspensions and arrests, Broward plans to lean heavily on its newly implemented PROMISE Program, which utilizes positive discipline techniques.

The discipline guidance itself might not be mindblowing, but the circumstances of its creation are a groundbreaking approach for a district beleaguered by high disciplinary rates, especially among minorities. Broward County has just over 260,000 students; of those, about 100,000 are black, and they've been suspended at over twice the rate of white students. According to the U.S. Department of Education's Civil Rights Data Collection, Broward County served 11,810 black students with in-school suspensions in 2009, or about 12 percent of the black student population. There were also 5,135 out-of-school suspensions for black students.

"We, for the first time in this community, can say that the community, the judiciary, the law enforcement, the public defender, the state's attorney, and the school district have come to the same conclusion—that we are all obligated to come together to work on this situation," Leon W. Russell, vice chairman for the NAACP board of directors, said in today's press conference.

"This is something every district can make on their own and do on their own," Alana Greer, a staff attorney for the Washington-based Advancement Project, said in an interview. Greer, as a member of her organization's Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track team, has been one of a cadre of people to offer advice to Broward County on crafting its new policy.

Broward County NAACP President Marsha Ellison has been at the forefront of the effort, and has been working for years with groups like the Advancement Project to mitigate the school-to-prison pipeline. But they hadn't found a political ally among top district brass until the arrival of Superintendent Robert Runcie in 2011, who made it a clear priority, starting with changing the code of conduct.

The board unanimously ratified the policy at a meeting late this morning, with a ceremonial signing held shortly thereafter. Community members lauded the board and Runcie for their work, and its passage received a standing ovation.

"If we don't find ways to turn this around and give them an opportunity, we're wasting a lot of lives," Runcie said at the signing. "I don't believe children fail, I believe we fail to give them the opportunities to succeed."

Elijah H. Williams, a judge for the 17th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida and one of the foremost advocates for the changes, noted at the signing that this is not the first such discipline system in the United States, but that it can be used to strengthen the momentum against zero-tolerance policies.

"Everyone wants this," he said.

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Revolutionizing School Discipline, With a Flowchart By Ross Brenneman on November 5, 2013 1:00 PM

Harsh discipline policies are falling out of favor across the country, but Broward County, Fla., is hoping to do away with them entirely.

Broward County, home to Fort Lauderdale and one of the nation's largest school systems, approved today a major overhaul of the district's discipline policies. In place of a routine that has seen large swaths of students incarcerated, the district is implementing a system based on restorative justice and forged with input from a broad coalition of local organizations and people.

"We've done away with the phrase 'zero tolerance,'" Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said at a press conference today. "Students will not become collateral damage of the way things used to be."

The new system offers guidance in two forms: A memorandum of understanding that details terms of discipline, and a flowchart ("decision matrix") that distills that memorandum into the bare essentials. In either iteration, the understanding makes clear when exactly school trouble warrants police action. The new structure does not eliminate police influence in schools, or deprive them of any jurisdiction; this shift isn't in power, but in mindset, establishing among all parties involved in the Broward County legal system—school board, administrators, judges, attorneys, police, and sheriff—that students deserve more tolerance than they've yet been given.


As the flowchart shows, district officials want to hold police action as strictly a last recourse. Only after five successive levels of intervention fail should an arrest be made, barring imminent danger or a felony. That's an abrupt shift in a county so rife in disciplinary action that many at today's press conference referenced students throwing M&M's as a reason for suspension. (Wasting chocolate is a crime, but still.)

The centerpiece of the agreement seems to be Step Three, the point at which an officer has been brought in to consult (but not take action) and must assess a situation. In many systems, this step can lead to suspensions both in and out of school because of zero-tolerance policies. Increasingly, however, school systems have started to question such policies, with Georgia, Los Angeles, and Detroit being some of the largest examples. In place of suspensions and arrests, Broward plans to lean heavily on its newly implemented PROMISE Program, which utilizes positive discipline techniques.

The discipline guidance itself might not be mindblowing, but the circumstances of its creation are a groundbreaking approach for a district beleaguered by high disciplinary rates, especially among minorities. Broward County has just over 260,000 students; of those, about 100,000 are black, and they've been suspended at over twice the rate of white students. According to the U.S. Department of Education's Civil Rights Data Collection, Broward County served 11,810 black students with in-school suspensions in 2009, or about 12 percent of the black student population. There were also 5,135 out-of-school suspensions for black students.

"We, for the first time in this community, can say that the community, the judiciary, the law enforcement, the public defender, the state's attorney, and the school district have come to the same conclusion—that we are all obligated to come together to work on this situation," Leon W. Russell, vice chairman for the NAACP board of directors, said in today's press conference.

"This is something every district can make on their own and do on their own," Alana Greer, a staff attorney for the Washington-based Advancement Project, said in an interview. Greer, as a member of her organization's Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track team, has been one of a cadre of people to offer advice to Broward County on crafting its new policy.

Broward County NAACP President Marsha Ellison has been at the forefront of the effort, and has been working for years with groups like the Advancement Project to mitigate the school-to-prison pipeline. But they hadn't found a political ally among top district brass until the arrival of Superintendent Robert Runcie in 2011, who made it a clear priority, starting with changing the code of conduct.[/size]

The board unanimously ratified the policy at a meeting late this morning, with a ceremonial signing held shortly thereafter. Community members lauded the board and Runcie for their work, and its passage received a standing ovation.

"If we don't find ways to turn this around and give them an opportunity, we're wasting a lot of lives," Runcie said at the signing. "I don't believe children fail, I believe we fail to give them the opportunities to succeed."

Elijah H. Williams, a judge for the 17th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida and one of the foremost advocates for the changes, noted at the signing that this is not the first such discipline system in the United States, but that it can be used to strengthen the momentum against zero-tolerance policies.

"Everyone wants this," he said.

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Harsh discipline policies are falling out of favor across the country, but Broward County, Fla., is hoping to do away with them entirely.

Broward County, home to Fort Lauderdale and one of the nation's largest school systems, approved today a major overhaul of the district's discipline policies. In place of a routine that has seen large swaths of students incarcerated, the district is implementing a system based on restorative justice and forged with input from a broad coalition of local organizations and people.

"We've done away with the phrase 'zero tolerance,'" Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said at a press conference today. "Students will not become collateral damage of the way things used to be."

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Broward County NAACP President Marsha Ellison has been at the forefront of the effort, and has been working for years with groups like the Advancement Project to mitigate the school-to-prison pipeline. But they hadn't found a political ally among top district brass until the arrival of Superintendent Robert Runcie in 2011, who made it a clear priority, starting with changing the code of conduct.


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This is breaking news. This CCS Investigates article includes research from sources. To the best of our knowledge we are the first to reveal the details of the Broward County School PROMISE program to the world. We are the first to find and publish the complete Memorandum of Understanding. We are the first to discover that Sheriff Scott Israel and Superintendent Robert Runcie signed the MOU which specifically prevented Sheriff Deputies and other Law Enforcement from arresting the school shooter on many occasions. We document the corruption of the PROMISE program. The CCS is the first reveal Alana Greer a far left lawyer wrote the PROMISE program and that George Soros funded the entire scheme. (Bard Note: Yes we even beat even @Cernovich the last citizen journalist who scooped the entire American media.)

A George Soros’ Open Society Foundation (OSF) funded Advancement Project which is focused on stopping the so-called “school-to-prison” pipeline. That organization helps write up these “PROMISE like” programs to not enforce the laws of the land in schools. One such program was implemented in Broward County written by Alana Greer, an anti-Trump radical leftists. Her organization the Advancement Project was being funded by George Soros’s Open Society Foundation (OSF).

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) implementing the PROMISE program written by Alana Greer covered Parkland school and was signed by Broward County Public Schools by Democrat Superintendent Robert Runcie. It specifically called for not reporting students in Douglas High School lead by Principal Ty Thompson to the police for threats and many other infractions. This MOU also signed by Democrat Sheriff Scott Israel ordered his deputies not to arrest students for things like “threatening” behavior.

The PROMISE program MOU has a very long, involved, seven-step process before Law Enforcement could arrest a kid or refer him for mandatory physiological help. This policy directed and mandated that Sheriff Deputies, school administrators, and others would not report the school shooter for his many infractions.

Patriots, Republicans, and the NRA ran into a buzz saw on this issue. We were outplayed at nearly every level. That ends now. The Democrat Party controlled law enforcement and Democrat Party controlled school officials put specific policies into place to not to enforce the laws. There answer to this disastrous policy is demanding more gun restrictions from law abiding Republicans. Unlimited migration of peoples while disarming the native population has always been a long-term strategy of George Soros, the NAZI collaborator, and the progressive Democratic Party. This violence was a natural and logical outcome of creating a policy to not ever increasing violent behavior inside of schools.

Not only didn’t they enforce the laws on the books, they specifically signed an agreement to not enforce the laws. The Progressive Left and George Soros are raising an entire generation of Americans who are taught in post-modernist controlled schools not to respect the laws of the lands and that their freedom is the work of the Democrat party and globalist progressive polices. Please read more about the corruption of the PROMISE program at The Thread Reader which includes screen grabs from internal affairs documents showing in details the corruption of the PROMISE program.

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...and suspensions in one Florida school district.


Reversing Broward County's School-to-Prison Pipeline

The story behind the so-far successful crusade to end disproportionate student arrests and suspensions in one Florida school district.

by Bryce Wilson Stucki

December 4, 2013


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When, after a nationwide search, he was hired two years ago to serve as superintendent of Florida's Broward County Public Schools, Robert Runcie began brainstorming ways to close the racial achievement gap. At the time, black students in the sixth-largest district in the country had a graduation rate of only 61 percent compared to 81 percent for white students. To find out why, Runcie, who once headed a management-consulting firm, went to the data.

"One of the first things I saw was a huge differential in minority students, black male students in particular, in terms of suspensions and arrests," he says. Black students made up two-thirds of all suspensions during the 2011-2012 school year despite comprising only 40 percent of the student body. And while there were 15,000 serious incidents like assaults and drug possession reported that year, 85 percent of all 82,000 suspensions were for minor incidents-use of profanity, disruptions of class-and 71 percent of all 1,000-plus arrests were for misdemeanors. The last statistic, says Runcie, "was a huge red flag."

Like most large school districts in the United States, discipline policies in Broward reflected the idea that the best way to maintain an orderly classroom is to get rid of disruptive students, an approach known as zero tolerance. Zero tolerance policies help explain why 81 percent of all suspensions in New York City Schools in the 2012-20 13 school year were for minor infractions and 70 percent of all arrests were for misdemeanors; why 67 percent of all school-based arrests in Florida in 2011-2012 were for misdemeanors; and why 97 percent of half a million suspensions and expulsions recorded in an eight-year Texas study published in 2011 were not required under state law. A 2008 survey from the American Psychological Association titled "Are Zero Tolerance Policies Effective in Schools?" found that "recent research indicates a negative relationship between the use of school suspension and expulsion and school-wide academic achievement." While factors outside of school, like family income, matter most for academic success, "there's a direct correspondence between the achievement gap and discipline," says Pedro Noguera, a professor of education at New York University. According to a nationwide study from UCLA 24 percent of black secondary-school students were suspended at least once during the 2009-2010 school year versus 7 percent of white students. That same year, the graduation rate for black students was 66 percent compared to 83 percent for white students.

Broward announced broad changes designed to mitigate the use of harsh punishments for minor misbehavior at the beginning of this school year. While other districts have amended their discipline codes, prohibited arrests in some circumstances, and developed alternatives to suspension, Broward was able to do all these things at once with the cooperation of a group that included a member of the local NAACP, a school board member, a public defender, a local sheriff, a state prosecutor, and several others. In early November, The Miami Herald reported that suspensions were already down 40 percent and arrests were down 66 percent. Yet these changes required years of advocacy. The hard scrabble road to Broward's success also helps explain why zero tolerance policies have persisted.

"This whole issue around arrests of students, suspensions, I was not familiar with any specific targeted strategy on that," says Runcie of his initial days as Broward superintendent. He turned to what one stakeholder calls the Eliminating the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Committee, a local group of advocates.

The "schoolhouse to jailhouse" in the committee's name refers to the track of suspensions and arrests that civil-rights groups like the NAACP and the Advancement Project say ends in dropout and incarceration for many minority students-the polar opposite of the academic track of AP classes that typically ends in college admission. A 2013 study of Florida students by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that a suspension in 9th grade lowered a student's chances of graduating by 20 percent and a 2013 study of Chicago students found that an arrest raises the odds of dropout by 22 percent, even after controlling for income. A 2009 study from Northeastern University found that 6 percent of all high-school dropouts (and 23 percent of black male dropouts) aged 16-24 were institutionalized (most in prisons), compared to 1 percent of people with high-school degrees.

Marsha Ellison, president of the Fort Lauderdale chapter of the NAACP, which is in Broward County, founded the Eliminating the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Committee. After a 5 year-old girl was arrested in a different Florida county in 2005-she threw a temper tantrum in an assistant principal's office-"we were all directed from our national group to meet with our school district, collect the data, and work through to fix this schoolhouse to jailhouse issue," she says. Ellison began to ask for discipline data on a regular basis, but says Runcie's predecessors would not release it, an assertion corroborated by Gordon Weekes, a public defender in Broward County, and Robin Bartleman, a school board member and former teacher in Broward. The district "thought if they hid and did not acknowledge it then the problem would go away," says Ellison.

A cadre of reformers who admired Ellison's determination began to meet with her on a regular basis. Bartleman was motivated by her experience in the classroom. "I remember having to expel students and literally being in tears thinking, 'Why does this child have to be expelled for this?'" she says. Weekes says he saw "school-based arrests for little minor things like kids shooting spitballs, a kid throwing a lollipop." After Baltimore lessened penalties for similar infractions in its discipline code and provided alternatives to suspension, like counseling, suspensions fell by 33 percent and the graduation rate increased by 15 percent in seven years.

Elijah Williams, a justice in the juvenile courts in Broward, joined the committee after he saw a presentation in Las Vegas by Steven Teske, a juvenile judge in Clayton County, Georgia. Teske had helped local law enforcement and school officials reach an agreement to send students who committed misdemeanors to counseling instead of to court. School-based referrals fell by 83 percent and the graduation rate rose by 24 percent over eight years. Williams soon had Teske on a plane to Broward to meet the committee.

Broward's Collaborative Agreement on School Discipline was announced in early November. Instead of suspensions, students can now be referred to the PROMISE program, where they receive counseling for several days and then return to school. A host of non-violent misdemeanors no longer require an arrest, though officers can sometimes override that if they feel it is necessary ("I wanted to make sure deputies always had discretion," says Scott Israel, Broward County's sheriff). The school district's Office of Minority Male Achievement reviews data to ensure that punishments for minor infractions and racial disparities are on the decline.

"There's been success with other districts working to address parts of the problem," says Alana Greer, an attorney with the Advancement Project who consulted on the agreement. In recent years, Los Angeles and Denver have limited the range of minor behavior infractions that can be punished by a suspension. "But what Broward did that really set it apart is they put together this incredible breadth of stakeholders. They have been able to not only address one piece of it, but create a set of policies that work together to hopefully eliminate the school-to-prison pipeline in Broward."

Broward is unusual because representatives from law enforcement, the district, and the community were able to agree on reform, and the superintendent approved it. "In dealing with the previous administration, people were afraid to look at disparate impact issues," says Weekes. "(Runcie) was not backing away from it." The new superintendent released the data and acknowledged that the problem had a racial dynamic. "It's a problem all over the country," Runcie says, "and Broward is no exception."

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While interesting, this is mostly old news. So, exactly what was the point of posting all of these posts?

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While interesting, this is mostly old news. So, exactly what was the point of posting all of these posts?

I didn't post the above posts. However, it's important that everyone knows why and where this whole mess started. Never forget who made this mess here in Broward and around the U.S.

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I didn't post the above posts. However, it's important that everyone knows why and where this whole mess started. Never forget who made this mess here in Broward and around the U.S.

What mess are you talking about?

The MSDHS Committee categorically stated that the Promise program did not contribute to the shooting incident in that location. No evidence, or even statistics, have ever been provided which have shown that the Promise program contributed to any higher criminal activity. While I disagree with the entire premise of the Promise program, feeling that it is based entirely upon a grave falsehood, that Black Americans are unfairly targeted by law enforcement, there is no evidence that it caused any problem. And, it was embraced by virtually every elected official, and many appointed officials, in Broward County.

Diversion programs have been used, within the criminal justice system for the last 40 years. Some are effective and some are not. The Promise program became a means to scapegoat an elected official for an incident over which no one, outside the BCSB, which was responsible for the security at MSDHS, had any control. It was spun for that purpose by the media and certain people with an agenda.

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What mess are you talking about?

The MSDHS Committee categorically stated that the Promise program did not contribute to the shooting incident in that location. No evidence, or even statistics, have ever been provided which have shown that the Promise program contributed to any higher criminal activity. While I disagree with the entire premise of the Promise program, feeling that it is based entirely upon a grave falsehood, that Black Americans are unfairly targeted by law enforcement, there is no evidence that it caused any problem. And, it was embraced by virtually every elected official, and many appointed officials, in Broward County.

Diversion programs have been used, within the criminal justice system for the last 40 years. Some are effective and some are not. The Promise program became a means to scapegoat an elected official for an incident over which no one, outside the BCSB, which was responsible for the security at MSDHS, had any control. It was spun for that purpose by the media and certain people with an agenda.

The Promise Program and Israel’s Civil Citation Program, along with Obama’s, Runcie and the juvenile state attorney’s policy’s of not enforcing appropriate discipline to minority students is and was the problem. The Promise Program and Civil Citation Program we’re abused. When an arrest was warranted the principals were petrified to call the police or have a student baker acted. Thus, allowing these student criminals to roam the schools without zero fear of repercussions.

Countless times the juvenile state attorneys office would decline legit cases.

The Promise Program and the Civil Citation were nothing more than a mirage to the citizens who thought that crime was non-existent in schools. Israel pandered to the blacks for votes and touted the low crime and low arrests of black students. Crime was never low. It still went on but was concealed under the Promise Program and CC Program.

Many crimes were just outright ignored where a student would get a 1 day suspension for a crime that warranted and expulsion and an arrest.

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What mess are you talking about?

The MSDHS Committee categorically stated that the Promise program did not contribute to the shooting incident in that location. No evidence, or even statistics, have ever been provided which have shown that the Promise program contributed to any higher criminal activity. While I disagree with the entire premise of the Promise program, feeling that it is based entirely upon a grave falsehood, that black Americans are unfairly targeted by law enforcement, there is no evidence that it caused any problem. And, it was embraced by virtually every elected official, and many appointed officials, in Broward County.

Diversion programs have been used, within the criminal justice system for the last 40 years. Some are effective and some are not. The Promise program became a means to scapegoat an elected official for an incident over which no one, outside the BCSB, which was responsible for the security at MSDHS, had any control. It was spun for that purpose by the media and certain people with an agenda.

You and your white guilt are the problem.

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That's the BCPS Matrix. Yep.

And,unless the former Sheriff, in the media, accuses the admin of the BCPS of hiding FELONIES, which there is a mountain of documentation that says they did, we are NOT NOT NOT going to support him. You can explain who is, or is not at fault all day, but between 2013 and 2018, there were VICTIMS of CRIME who did not get justice and they have not been forgotten. A helpless female child with muscular dystrophy photographed on a school toilet and having the photo blasted all over the school. THAT is NOT a crime? That's locker room antics? A MATRIX issue? Sorry, not acceptable. Nothing to do with MSD. If Israel doesn't need or want our vote, that's fine, he can keep preaching to the same choir who will eventually walk to the other side where the candidate" looks more like Broward.' I don't blame Israel for MSD, but I blame him for turning a blind eye to the corruption at BCPS for 6 years. I blame him for the look on the face of deputies frustrated when they cannot arrest a juvenile who is clearly predatory with repeat offenses. I blame him for the manipulative intimidation of victims families who want justice when the innocence of their child was stolen by a pathological juvenile, slapped on the wrist as he is set up for his first bus ride up the road, at age 18. Juvenile statistics left a wake of defenseless victims and they will be heard. Soon, Runcie will moon walk out of Broward County 6 million dollars wealthier. DeSantis didn't burn Israel, SBBC and Runcie did, with much assistance from the JV crew.