Starting next school year, fourth and fifth graders in California's public schools will not be suspended for what's come be known as "willful defiance." There was already a ban on such suspensions for kindergarten through third grade, and Oakland banned the suspensions years ago. The governor signed a bill this week that expands the ban statewide.
California Fourth and Fifth Graders Won't be Suspended for Willful Defiance in 2020
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Students at Esperanza Elementary School in East Oakland, one of the many small schools the school district opened in 2006. (Ana Tintocalis/KQED)
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