Senate committee on school discipline meets today
A Georgia Senate committee looking to improve how school districts discipline students will hold its final hearing Tuesday evening.
The meeting will begin at 6:45 p.m. in the auditorium of the Henry County school system’s headquarters, 33 N. Zack Hinton Parkway in McDonough.
The committee, led by Sen. Emanuel Jones, D-Decatur, was created in response to concerns about the high rate of student expulsions, punishments imposed by local school boards and time spent in alternative schools.
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Eric Stirgus joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2001. He is the newsroom's education editor. Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Eric is active in the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists and the Education Writers Association and enjoys mentoring aspiring journalists.
