Reporting Highlights
- New Law About Threats: A 2023 Tennessee law requires a minimum yearlong expulsion for students who threaten mass violence. Some students were expelled for mildly disruptive behavior.
- More Frequent Expulsions: Expulsions for threats went up in some districts after the law passed, even when the total number of threats remained the same or decreased.
- Police Involvement: Some school administrators handed off the responsibility for dealing with minor incidents…