This Chicago project involved the development of a safe-school plan for inner-city elementary schools located in high-crime neighborhoods, which were experiencing high levels of school crime and violence. A school discipline manual was developed with the involvement of parents, teachers, students, and administrators. The project established an in-school suspension program and a school safety council (composed of teachers, parents, administrators, and students) for the purpose of reviewing policy and hearing exceptional discipline cases referred by the administrator in charge of discipline (Menacker, Hurwitz, & Weldon, 1988; Speirs, 1989; Menacker, Hurwitz, & Weldon, 1990).
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