COLLINS — At the beginning of every school year, April Johnson oversees the distribution of the Covington County School District student handbook. Tucked into the first half is a section titled ...

Students with disabilities were also at greater risk. Children are physically punished for a range of behaviors - talking too much, disrupting class, breaking rules, tardiness. Some Mississippi ...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma principal accused of spanking two elementary school students with a wooden paddle, leaving both boys bruised, has been charged with child abuse and placed on ...

TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - Back in July, Governor Strickland signed a budget bill into law that included a ban on paddling. Ohio is one of 30 states that prohibits paddling in public schools. Some parents ...

Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America Two Texas mothers set off a firestorm recently when they complained that a male ...

HEPHZIBAH, Ga. (CNN) – A charter school in Georgia is bringing back an old-fashioned form of discipline, and that has many parents up in arms. “In this school, we take discipline very seriously,” said ...

A charter school in Georgia sent out consent forms to parents informing them about a corporal punishment that would allow the school to paddle students. Jody Boulineau, superintendent of Georgia ...

SWAMPSCOTT — A Swampscott High student was disciplined for bringing a paddle onto school grounds, but administrators said rumors that a student was actually paddled as part of a first-day-of-school ...