California schools will no longer be able to suspend students in elementary or middle school for “willful defiance” beginning in 2020.
NPR education reporter Anya Kamenetz (@anya1anya) joins host Tonya Mosley to examine the motivation behind the state’s suspension ban and visit a school in Los Angeles that’s replaced suspension with mindfulness.
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