Eve Rips
Eve rips in an Assistant professor of Law. her scholarly research and writing focuses on educational policy and legislation.
Article Written By Professor Eve Rips is Published in the Michigan State Law Review Heading link
An article written by Assistant Professor Eve Rips, “The Collateral Consequences of School Disciplinary Records” was published by the Michigan State Law Review. Read the abstract below.
“Although a large body of scholarship has addressed the lifelong
consequences of criminal records, researchers and advocates have
paid less attention to the analogous set of permanent consequences
that attach to school disciplinary records. Likewise, although many
authors have addressed inequities in school discipline, the
school-to-prison pipeline, and the negative impacts of missed school
time due to discipline, scholarship has not yet comprehensively
addressed the ways in which school records themselves can impede
access to education, licensure, and employment for years to come. Yet
in a way that parallels the set of inequitable barriers erected by
criminal and juvenile records, school disciplinary records also lead
to their own set of collateral consequences. These collateral
consequences mean that the racial inequities pervasive in school
disciplinary practices are reflected throughout adulthood in decisions
about who gains access to critical opportunities to learn and to work.
This Article documents the ways that elementary and secondary
school disciplinary records can continue to erect barriers for years
after graduation. It finds that requirements to disclose K-12
disciplinary records in college admissions, graduate admissions, and
applications for professional licensure are surprisingly common.
FERPA exceptions and data breaches can also leave information from school records vulnerable. This Article provides the first thorough
analysis of the limited ways that legislative and institutional changes
have begun to address this issue to date. It concludes by proposing a
more robust set of novel legislative solutions, analogous to
expungement and ban the box laws in the criminal context, designed
to ensure that records of school discipline remain truly confidential.”