Lawmakers, school board consider alternative approach to classroom discipline

School suspensions may become a thing of the past. Lawmakers and school board members are looking at a different approach to student discipline statewide.
National studies have found that, for many incarcerated adults, their pathway to jail started with frequent suspensions in school. The trend is now known as the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Educators statewide are trying to figure out how to break that link.
An alternative program for troubled youth called Step Up offers a start. Learning t