State Policies on School Climate and Bully Prevention Efforts: Challenges and Opportunities for Deepening State Policy Support for Safe and Civil Schools.

The National School Climate Center (NSCC) recently completed a 50-state policy scan on state school climate and anti-bullying policies to better understand the current state policy infrastructure supporting the development of positive school climates. This policy brief examines the current status of school climate and anti-bullying policies in each state, and provides policy examples and recommendations for policymakers, districts, schools and school climate advocates to consider. In conducting the policy scan, we defined policies as a state’s statutes, administrative code, state education standards and rules/regulations.