No school suspension: Two rows of many empty, long tables on pale blue or bright orange with attached benches are in a covered cemented area, with several people lined up single file in aisle between them

What happens when suspensions get suspended?

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The Los Angeles school district’s decade-old ban on suspensions for ‘willful defiance’ has benefited students — but also required a major investment in less punitive discipline methods. The district’s results have been positive: Data suggests that schools didn’t become less safe, more chaotic or less effective, as critics had warned.