Oct. 2, 2015
School trauma suit advances
A federal court recognized for the first time that complex trauma can constitute a disability that public schools have an obligation to address and failure to address the effects of trauma denies students meaningful access to education.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A suit that argues for trauma-sensitive training of Compton Unified School District
faculty and staff will continue after a federal judge denied the defendant's motion
to dismiss Wednesday.
Plaintiffs argue that the experience of living in poverty and witnessing or experiencing
violence creates trauma that imped...
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