Witnesses allege Arielle Everett forced her son to the ground and punched him. Everett says she fell while holding onto her ...

A student is considered chronically absent when they miss at least 10% of a school year. In most states, that means missing about 18 days a year, regardless of whether the absences were excused.

An arrest report says Arielle Everett was frustrated with her son's "continued behavioral problems." Her attorney argues Everett's actions in this case amount to legal corporal punishment.

WASHINGTON ( DC News Now) – A second allegation of corporal punishment at a Southeast D.C. elementary school is under investigation, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and DC Public Schools ...

The New York State Education Department collected data how many students experienced these methods in public, charter and ...

Presently, 19 states still allow corporal punishment. The United States Supreme Court decision in 1977 said that “corporal punishment was not cruel and unusual punishment and is, thus, allowed in ...

The Biden administration put on notice states where corporal punishment is still legal and used in schools as a form of discipline, warning governors, state education chiefs, superintendents and ...

The Mississippi Coalition to end Corporal Punishment, along with other public policy groups, is making efforts to end state-sanctioned corporal punishment in Mississippi. The MSCECP recently conducted ...

When news broke recently that a 6-year-old student was beaten with a wooden paddle by her school principal in Florida, many people likely had to double check that it wasn’t a story from the 1950s. In ...

More than 160,000 children in 19 states are the victims of corporal punishment in schools each year, new research suggests, with African-American children in a few southern school districts about 50% ...

Fijian advocates, mental health professionals and those with lived experiences reject the call to reintroduce corporal ...

Two separate cases of corporal punishment against nine-year-olds in Karnataka reveal alarming abuses by teachers in ...