Max Eden writes on what legislators should do about school safety in a paper for AEI’s new series, Sketching a New Conservative Education Agenda.
Key Points
- Policymakers have tied teachers’ hands and undermined their authority in the classroom by mandating “restorative justice” practices.
- To counter this problem, state legislatures should establish a body to conduct annual audits of school safety and climate through anonymous, open-ended teacher surveys.
- Also, state legislatures should mandate that every school district establish a parental advisory committee on school safety, with an agenda item at every board meeting to raise problems and concerns.
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Max Eden is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Follow him on Twitter here.