REPORT: California makes shocking decision about student suspensions

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has signed off on legislation banning schools in the state from suspending students for disruptive behavior.

Senate Bill 419, signed into law by Newsom on Monday, will amend the California Education Code to prohibit public and charter schools in the state from suspending students in grades 4-8 for “disrupting school activities or otherwise willfully defying the valid authority of those school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties.”

The article goes on to state the following:

Existing law already prohibited schools from suspending or recommending expulsion for students enrolled in kindergarten or in grades 1-3 for such actions.

The move has been met with opposition from the Charter School Development Center, based in Sacramento, which told the station that “Charter schools were created to be public schools exempt from most sections of the California Education Code. Imposing unnecessary restrictions on these schools of choice is counterintuitive to the original intent of the legislature.”

“Charter law requires each school’s petition to address issues of expulsion and this law would effectively overwrite the language of 1,300 charter petitions causing significant disruption at the local level. Further, this bill is based on no credible evidence of an expulsion problem in California charter schools,” the group added. “To the contrary, charter schools often serve as a school of last resort of students who have been expelled from traditional schools and these pupils thrive in a charter school environment.”

New California law bars elementary and middle schools from suspending students for “willful defiance,” which includes talking back to the teacher, falling asleep in class. https://t.co/QpesDr2e2B pic.twitter.com/bVQjrtISS2

— KPIX 5 (@KPIXtv) September 10, 2019

It is sad when #CaDems claim to be the party of students and teachers, yet pass ridiculous laws. This bill was one of the issues discussed in my meeting with California teachers this past convention. https://t.co/CY2FdBbeI7

— Jessica Millan Patterson (@millanpatterson) September 10, 2019

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