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On April 23, 2025, the White House issued an executive order to reinstate school discipline policies focused on student behavior. This order aims to eliminate race-based discipline practices introduced in previous guidelines, which the administration believes have negatively impacted school safety. The new directives require that school discipline be based solely on student behavior, rather than racial statistics, and outline steps for local and state educational agencies to comply with these updated standards.

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