CSAs are a type of education savings account (ESA) program for parents who feel, for whatever reason, their child’s school is unsafe.
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That is why The Heartland Institute is proposing for states to create a Child Safety Account (CSA) program. Students should not have to wait years at a time or become victims of violent crime before their parents are allowed to transfer them to safer schools, which is current policy. Because states define unsafe schools so narrowly, fewer than 50 American public schools out of nearly 100,000 are labeled “persistently dangerous” each year. The federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) permits students to transfer to another public school under ESSA’s Unsafe School Choice Option provision, but only if their current public school meets the state definition of a “persistently dangerous” school. Even more disturbingly, 18.8 percent of Mississippi high school students said they had seriously considered attempting suicide, while 12.7 percent actually attempted it. Disturbingly, 10.5 percent reported skipping school at least once in the last 30 days due to concerns for their safety.
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The latest data from YRBSS shows 18.5 percent of Mississippi high school students, were bullied on school property in 2019, while 13.6 percent of state high school students reported being cyberbullied.Īnother 10.3 percent reported being in a fight on school property in 2019, with 9.8 percent reporting they were threatened or injured with a weapon on school property. Part of the prevalence methodology is sourced from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) biennial Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), last released in 2020 and containing survey data from 2019. An October 2021 report from WalletHub ranks Mississippi as having the fifth-biggest bullying problem of any state in the country based on a number of metrics including prevalence, impact, and cost.