The consortium collects courses donated by participants and also creates courses, write the paper. Classes are offered via Internet and CD-ROM, and sometimes employees from one company are invited to another firm for a course. But many of the state's children's advocates express dismay over the punitive sentences for the youngsters. According to state data, Mass. students received twice as many yearlong suspensions last year as they did the previous year, writes the paper. The state DoEd survey also found an increase in the rate of expelled students who were not assigned to alternative schools.
Safe schools are a top priority.
However, many child advocates disagreed. Only special-education students must be provided with alternative schooling, under the state's Education Reform Act. Some child advocates are particularly piqued over the number of young children suspended or expelled. We are seeing younger kids. All children in America will start school ready to learn.