Written By Lexx Thornton Texas House Republicans have proposed new legislation that would give educators significantly more discretion over suspending homeless students, weakening legal protections for the state’s most vulnerable children. House Bill 6, cosponsored by nearly three-quarters of House Republicans, would allow school leaders to suspend homeless students out of school for behavior that “threatens the immediate health and safety of other students” or results in “repeated or significant disruption to the classroom.” Under a law passed with bipartisan support in 2019, Texas educators can currently issue out-of-school suspensions to homeless students, only if they break rules related to
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