This bill aims to reduce harsh and unfair school discipline that pushes kids out of class, especially girls of color. It tells the Education Department’s civil rights office to collect and publish detailed, yearly data on suspensions, expulsions, transfers, referrals to police, and arrests—why they happened and who they affect—while protecting privacy and making the reports easy to read and available in many languages. The reports must point out schools and districts that show patterns of overuse or bias.

It creates “Healing School Climate Grants” to help schools move from punishment to support. Schools or nonprofits that take these grants must stop suspending or expelling young children (pre‑K–grade 5) for incidents that don’t involve serious physical injury, and stop suspending any student for things like willful defiance, truancy, tardiness, vulgar language, or dress/appearance rule violations. Corporal punishment, seclusion, and mechanical or chemical restraints are barred; physical restraint is only allowed in a real emergency by trained staff, with strict limits. Money can fund staff training, counseling, and restorative practices—but cannot be used to hire school police, buy surveillance tools, or arm staff. The bill also sets up a joint task force led by the Education and Health and Human Services Departments to study and fix the pushout of girls of color, with regular public reports and no law enforcement members. It authorizes $500 million each year for the grants and task force, and another $500 million each year for civil rights data work.

• Who is affected: Students in public pre‑K–12 schools (with special focus on girls of color), families, educators, school districts, and eligible nonprofits.
• What changes: Annual public data on discipline; grants that require safer, fairer discipline; bans on certain punishments for grantee schools; and limits on using grant money for policing or surveillance.
• When: The civil rights report is due one year after enactment and then yearly; the task force must be appointed within 60 days and issue its first report within 360 days, then every two years; grantees must report publicly within a year of enactment.

Purpose in plain terms: cut bias in school discipline, reduce lost class time, and prevent unnecessary criminalization of students.