ECS regularly issues useful compilations, summaries and/or comparisons of state policies — enacted or pending — on a wide variety of education topics, listed on the right. For a list of our most current documents, please see our What's New page.
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School Safety
 Youth Violence: A Policymakers' Guide  PDF - Youth Violence: A Policymakers' Guide: ECS published Youth Violence: A Policymakers' Guide in 1996, but many parts of it remain relevant. In particular, note the Level of Risk Continuum on pages 10-11. Ranging from "Life Threatening Risks" to "Risks Related to Personal and Social
Self-Determination," the continuum remains one of the best school audit tools ECS has found. (ECS, 1996)...
Bullying and Open Enrollment PDF - Some state anti-bullying policies require districts to adopt strategies to protect students who have been bullied from further victimization. A few states go one step further, adopting specialized interdistrict transfer policies to allow victims of bullying to enroll in another school district, or allowing for the transfer of bullies themselves. This report describes state policies to allow bullying victims, or bullies themselves, to transfer to another school or district. (Jennifer Dounay Zinth, November 2011)...
State Anti-Bullying Policies: A National Landscape PDF - This PowerPoint presentation outlines anti-bullying policies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Presentation was made to the 2011 National Conference of State Legislators Legislative Summit in San Antonio, Texas on August 9, 2011.
(Jennifer Dounay Zinth, Education Commission of the States, August 2011)...
From the ECS State Policy Database: School Safety - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: School Safety--Code of Conduct - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
State Procedural Due Process Provisions for Out-of-School Suspensions  MS Word PDF - In its 1975 ruling on Goss v. Lopez, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that students had a right to due process protections under the U.S. Constitution for out-of-school suspensions that were less than 10 days. This ECS Highlights document summarizes a recent study by Perry Zirkel and Mark Covelle that examined state laws in the wake of the Goss decision. (Kyle Zinth, Education Commission of the States, May 2010)...
School Uniforms and Dress Codes: State Policies PDF - This StateNote lists state policies on school uniforms and dress codes. No states mandate the use of school uniforms. Twenty-three states give local districts the authority to require students to wear uniforms. Indiana, Iowa and New Hampshire authorize local districts to establish dress codes, but do not mention uniforms in the state statute. Massachusetts’ law prohibits dress codes. (Michael Colasanti, Education Commission of the States, March 2008)...
From the ECS State Policy Database: School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
State Anti-bullying Statutes MS Word PDF - Bullying by students on school grounds, a subject of renewed interest for state policymakers in recent years, was most recently brought to the national spotlight by the highly publicized school shootings of the late 1990s, in which the shooters were reported to be the victims of bullies at the school. This ECS StateNote examines state policies regarding bullying by students on school property, discussing the number of states with such policies and the components of existing anti-bullying policies. It also lists the components of comprehensive anti-bullying policies and provides statutory information for all bullying statutes. (Jennifer Dounay, Education Commission of the States, April 2005)...
From the ECS State Policy Database: School Safety--Special Education - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: School Safety--Corporal Punishment - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: School Safety--Uniforms/Dress Codes - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
The Dress Code Debate and School Uniform Movement: A Selected Bibliography MS Word - A comprehensive bibliography on the subject of the dress code debate and school uniform movement. (Education Commission of the States, July 1998)
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