Student Health, Safety and Wellbeing
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Safe and Supportive Schools
Safe and Supportive Schools strengthen student readiness by aligning student supports and school safety practices to promote safe, supportive learning environments statewide.
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Student Discipline
TEA’s Student Discipline Program guides schools and service centers on discipline policies, procedures, and data reporting required by the Texas Education Data Standards.
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Child Abuse Prevention Overview
Educators and school staff in Texas are required to stay informed about child abuse and must report suspected cases. As the largest group of mandated reporters, they play a key role in protecting students. School leaders can support student safety by creating clear reporting policies, programs, and training.
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Emergency Preparedness
Guidance, waivers, and emergency resources to help Texas schools prepare, respond, and recover.
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Coordinated School Health Requirements and Approved Programs
Health means more than being disease-free; it includes full physical, mental, and social well-being. An effective school health program has multiple components, each contributing individually and supporting the others.
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Human Trafficking of School-aged Children
Human trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transporting, or procurement of a person for labor or services for the purpose of involuntary servitude, slavery, or forced commercial sex acts. While human trafficking is a global problem, it is also a Texas problem. School-aged children are vulnerable to the manipulation and exploitation tactics of traffickers. Unfortunately, law enforcement has confirmed cases of trafficking occurring on school grounds, at school events, and even carried out by classmates.
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Physical Fitness Assessment Initiative
State law requires school districts to annually assess the physical fitness of students enrolled in grade three or higher and to provide the results of individual student performance on the administered physical fitness assessments to the TEA.
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Pregnancy Related Services
Pregnancy Related Services are support services, including Compensatory Education Home Instruction (CEHI), that a pregnant student receives during the pregnancy prenatal and postpartum periods. Districts may choose whether to offer a PRS program. If a district chooses to offer a PRS program, it must offer CEHI services as part of that program, as they are mandatory.
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Restorative Practices in Texas
Restorative Practices (RP) in Texas began in the Fall of 2015. The Texas Education Agency partnered with the Institute for Restorative Justice and Restorative Dialogue at The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work to participate in a statewide roll out.
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Texas Driving with Disability
As required by Texas Education Code §29.0113, Texas public schools must provide information about the options available through the Texas Driving with Disability initiative.