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The Punishment Gap: Schools Discipline Special Ed Students at Higher Rates
A series on discipline of special education students. In Jenks Public Schools, campus police physically restrained and handcuffed a second-grade special education student. His crime? He ran to the...
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School Discipline Often Goes Unrecorded
A series on discipline of special education students. Although the tracking of discipline at schools has increased in recent years, many disciplinary actions are not recorded. Joy Turner, an attorney...
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OKWatch Radio: Parents of Special Ed Students Talk About Discipline at Schools
An Oklahoma Watch investigation finds that across the state, special education students are being paddled, suspended and expelled at higher rates than those of other students. Listen to Brad Gibson's...
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For Special Education Students, a Hefty Dose of Corporal Punishment
A series on discipline of special education students. More than a dozen names are inked onto the wooden paddle tucked behind Principal Josh Gwartney’s desk. Each name memorializes a child who was given...
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Kicked from School: Minorities in Special Ed
Victor HendersonKaren Burston cries in her Oklahoma City home as she talks about the discrimination she believes she and her son have faced at Oklahoma City Public Schools. Burston’s son is in a...
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Schools Search for Answers to Curb Student Discipline
A series on discipline of special education students. School districts in Oklahoma and across the nation are looking at revising their discipline policies to keep at-risk and minority students in the...
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Feds Open New Civil Rights Probe into OKC Public Schools
Victor Henderson / Oklahoma WatchKaren Burston, of Oklahoma City, is tearful as she talks about what she believes is the discrimination she and her son have faced at Sequoyah Elementary School....
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