Denver schools tighten student discipline, new report shows

Flashback: The East High student who shot and injured two deans had been expelled from a neighboring district and was subject to a daily search for weapons by school staff.

State of play: The "permissible" discipline matrix is new this year, our education reporting partners at Chalkbeat write, and it is designed to make corrective actions uniform across the district.

• 94% of the 8,000 discipline actions met the criteria, compared with 83% last school year.
• Black students continue to be disproportionately disciplined but the responses are in line with the permitted punishments.

What they're saying: "There's still a tremendous amount of growth and areas of improvement … we are trending better," superintendent Alex Marrero told school board members at a recent meeting.

What we're watching: The 2021 matrix for how students are disciplined is being rewritten after community input and will debut for the next school year.