At vocational schools, suspensions are down

While the number of students who have been suspended from public schools over the past few years has remained relatively constant, some local districts - particularly vocational technical schools - have bucked the trend and cut their rates, sometimes sharply. Driving the change, said officials, is an effort to deal with students individually and get them involved in school, an increased emphasis on detention rather than suspension, and perhaps, in the cases of regional vocational schools, attracting more students, which allows the schools to be choosier in their admissions.
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