A team of five psychologists who counseled troubled students will lose their jobs.
The few guards who remained were made active collaborators with the school's leaders, regularly convening to discuss ways to help troubled students.
Ms. Gusenfitter, who plans to pursue a master's degree in elementary or special education, said she wanted to teach partly to help troubled students through tumultuous times.
Union and district negotiators are at odds over wages, health care provisions and a proposal to contract with outside social agencies to serve troubled students.
But some worry that the attention and zero tolerance reactions only give troubled students more of a reason to act out.
Giving Students a Lift THURSDAY -- A black-tie dinner at the Pierre will raise money for Student Sponsor Partners, an organization that matches troubled students with sponsors who send them to private high schools and provide mentoring.
At Cornell, if troubled students won't come to treatment, then treatment will meet them halfway: the university has strategically placed 10 drop-in centers so students it wants to reach can't miss them.
The Soulsville redevelopment project, which was officially begun last spring, encompasses a 27,000-square-foot academy to help troubled students through music and a 17,000-square-foot museum of American soul music, both of which are under construction.
A growing body of research, scholars say, suggests that heavy use of suspensions does less to pacify schools than to push already troubled students toward academic failure and dropping out — and sometimes into what critics have called the "school-to-prison pipeline".
