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Children's Law and Policy Initiative Indiana Holds Summit at IU McKinney
10/10/2016
The Children’s Law and Policy Initiative Indiana (CLPI) held the annual Public Policy Summit on October 7 in the Wynne Courtroom at Inlow Hall. This year’s topic was “Moving Forward with Positive Learning Environments in Indiana.” IU McKinney and the National Alliance on Mental Illness Indiana joined with CLPI to sponsor the event.
The meeting’s purpose was to talk about how school suspensions impact the academic success of all students, strategies to advance positive discipline, and how to guard the legal rights of students. The goal of the event was to find common ground for advancing new approaches to manage school behavior.
In its fourth year, over 80 people attended the summit, about one-third of which were attorneys, with the remaining attendees being educators. The events focus on educational issues that intersect with the justice system and impact vulnerable children, prompting policy discussions that can lead to changes in laws and practices.
“We are honored to have the law school support these important policy discussions for children,” said Indianapolis attorney JauNae Hanger, who serves as CLPI’s president. “We are also very fortunate to have the participation of the school’s faculty and students in our work.” Professor Fran Watson, ’80, has been a part of CLPI since its beginning.
