Putting a cold financial price tag on the impact of school discipline practices, researchers have calculated that a 10th-grade California student who drops out because of being suspended from school could end up costing the public $755,000 in lost tax revenue and increased health care and criminal justice expenses over the life of the student, according to a report released by the the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at UCLA's Civil Rights Project.

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California Attorney General Kamala Harris has launched an investigation into the use of harsh discipline - including physical restraints and isolation  - on students with disabilities who attend publicly funded private special education schools, EdSource has learned.

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Schools across the country are preparing to formally track students from military families, monitoring their academic, attendance and discipline records as they move from military base to military base and state to state, under a new provision in the federal education law. The change comes in response to concerns raised by the Department of Defense that the children of active-duty members of the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force and Marines have academic and emotional needs that schools often are ill-equipped to meet.

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As a high school student, Coley Baker found a "dream school" in Biola University, an evangelical Christian college with a palm-tree-dotted campus close, yet not too close, to home in Los Angeles County. But things happen in late adolescence - identity takes shape, feelings emerge - and by the 2014 Biola graduation ceremony, the young Christian woman Baker once appeared to be had spent two years hiding a new identity as a young Christian transgender man.

Baker never came out publicly about his transgender identity on campus. But at about the same time, Biola decided to apply for a religious exemption that would give the university the right to expel transgender students and refuse to admit, house or accommodate them, without jeopardizing federal funding.

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Dealing with lead in drinking fountains. Schools across the country continue to discover toxic levels of lead in drinking fountains. District Administrator magazine offers tips on water testing, water filters and raising public awareness that crumbling lead plumbing systems may have to be replaced.

Let everyone know the findings. The Portland Public Schools superintendent put two district officials on leave, saying they ran a health and safety department that "didn't deliver" on addressing hazardous levels of lead in school water or in communicating their findings to the district and the public, OregonLive reported.

Insurers say no. The Los Angeles Unified School District said it was surprised to find that its insurance company said it was not responsible for covering a total of $288 million in legal settlements to families of children who were sexually abused by teachers at school.

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