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Journal Times staff Racine Area Manufacturers and Commerce, in cooperation with The Journal Times, sent a questionnaire to the five candidates on the ballot in Tuesday’s Racine Unified School Board election. In District 6, Auntavia Jackson and Carmella Venturini are competing to replace John Heckenlively, who is not seeking re-election. In District 5, Ally Docksey is challenging incumbent Jane Brewer Barbian. Incumbent Julie McKenna is running unopposed in District 4. Their ans...

School climates, reducing school suspensions and decreasing student arrests. nikki, pardon the interruption, will you also apparently it is working because so far this year only 8% of the eighth graders have been suspended and were already to february. >> what im going to say is i dont know that its necessarily working. there has been a policy the last couple of years thats changed the criteria in which suspensions are given to students. and i do think that there should be positive reinforcement...

Tolerance or foolishness, we need to take a pause. we need more interventions that are positive interventions and positive school climates and social workers as much as we need school safety agents. >> lets talk about those positive alternatives. were asking people at home who are moved by this story as so many have told us they are already, to call and find out are there positive alternatives? are there programs specifically targeting at risk youth? do you think theres enough of that? >> im thr...