The Ending PUSHOUT Act (Federal)

The Ending Punitive, Unfair, School-based Harm that is Overt and Unresponsive to Trauma (PUSHOUT) Act (H.R.2738 / S.1338) targets often-discriminatory punitive, exclusionary discipline practices in schools which only serve to push our most vulnerable students away from the help they need by:

1. Establishing new federal grants to support states and schools that commit to ban unfair and discriminatory school discipline practices and improve school climates;

2. Protecting the Civil Rights Data Collection and strengthening the Department of Education’s (ED) Office for Civil Rights (OCR);

3. Establishing a federal interagency taskforce to end school pushout and examine its disproportionate impact on girls of color.

For the good of our students, we need to pull them into the learning environment, not push them out.