HB 441 Summary

• Requires school safety and discipline reports to include suspension and expulsion data disaggregated by race, gender, and disability, plus reasons and duration of disciplinary actions.

• Eliminates zero tolerance policies for violent, disruptive, or inappropriate behavior and requires school boards to establish alternative prevention and intervention strategies instead.

• Mandates training for all teachers on district discipline strategies and proper protocols for handling incidents involving student misbehavior.

• Requires school building principals to evaluate teacher performance during discipline incidents and document evaluations in personnel files for consideration during teacher evaluations.

• Requires school district superintendents to annually report to the Department of Education on progress closing achievement gaps between student subgroups and the relationship between student achievement and school discipline.