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Rowe read directly from a 'Framework for Revising School District Codes of Student Conduct,' published by the School Superintendents' Association. It also plans 'common lessons' for students that she says will lead to less racial bias in discipline. She said the school hosted a '101' training for teachers last week, to instruct them in their racial bias. 'This approach will be greatly expanded moving forward in our work here at LT,' Rowe told the board, arguing that non-whites are unfairly punished because students and teachers don't have 'common expectations' and 'common language.' Rowe and Lyons Township school principal Jennifer Tyrrell said that by June 1, the school will adopt a new 'non discriminatory' Code of Conduct model that's being used currently to minimize non-white student punishments in Chicago Public Schools, as well as by districts in Baltimore, Denver, Boston and Buffalo.

Jennifer Rowe, LT's 'director of diversity and inclusion,' hired last August to improve race relations at the school, told the Lyons Township District 204 School Board Monday night she is replacing the school's existing Code of Conduct with a new one that would result in more 'oral warnings' and fewer suspensions and expulsions, keeping even serious non-white student offenders like Washington 'on campus.' Ten days after student Heavyn Washington's brutal, racially-inspired in-school attack that led to battery charges, a Lyons Township High School administrator said the school plans to be more lenient in punishing non-white students for once-major transgressions, like fighting and drug use.

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