HB 2504

Abstract

Directs school districts to identify at least one school employee for every 250 students to act as disciplinary mediator. Requires school districts to appropriately train and compensate mediators and to provide mediation when out-of-school suspension or expulsion is proposed or upon request for other disciplinary incidents. Directs school districts to conduct annual evaluation on use of discipline in schools of school district for purposes of determining if there was racial disparity in use of discipline, establishing goals to reduce any racial disparity and developing plan to achieve goals.