USA Today “Best Practices” in teacher discipline sharing—a point system

In its investigative report on national teacher discipline data, USA Today adopted a 100-point scale for ranking states' practices for publicizing teacher discipline data. The news organization modeled its questionnaire on a study by the Governmental Accountability Office that did not disclose states' individual answers; USA Today modified that scale and did disclose the answers. Points were assigned as follows:

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