Signature Academies in each of the school zones, restorative practices training and refining Common Core curriculum are a few of Newport-Mesa Unified School District's top goals for the school year.

Restorative justice has long been a goal at Marin’s county courthouse. Local youth and drug courts have sought to divert offenders from jail or prison sentences to those aimed toward steering ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District budgets more than $10 million annually for restorative justice and has a goal of implementing the practices in each of its more than 900 schools by 2020.

The goal of restorative justice—to limit suspensions, detentions, and arrests (especially in racially inequitable systems of discipline) ...

Restorative Justice practices are in addition to traditional discipline. It involves offenders, victims, and other affected stakeholders sitting together to better understand consequences of actions.

Restorative justice in Detroit By Larry Gabriel. Feb 28, 2018 ... Goals of restorative practices include reducing crime, violence, and bullying, improving human behavior, ...

Elements of restorative justice have long been used in Indigenous cultures, and, since the 1970s, as part of alternative sentencing programs in the criminal justice system.The practice spread to ...

Across the country, restorative justice is lowering test scores and increasing the number of students who feel unsafe at schools. That’s according to Max Eden, a senior fellow with the Manhattan ...

The transformative aspects of using restorative justice to repair harm. NPT host Jerome Moore talks with Rahim Buford, founder of Unheard Voices, and community organizer Rev. Janet Wolf about ...

For restorative justice to have a transformative impact on our students and communities, the district needs a concrete and publicly available restorative justice implementation plan.

I am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse by clergy in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Bringing justice to abuse survivors is a main goal of the attorney general’s efforts, and I certainly agree … ...