The Daisy Education Corporation School Board has approved the new policy for starting 2009 - 2010 education year.

The decision to go to a uniform policy was not an easy one, but the data on uniform policies in school is irrefutable.

• In the Long Beach School District (the first public district to adopt a uniform policy in the US), acts of violence decreased by over 50% after the policy took effect.
• In Norfolk Virginia, the uniform policy saw a 42% decrease in discipline referrals.
• In virtually every district with a uniform policy, tardiness, skipped classes,and suspensions have decreased substantially while the schools have reported safer campuses, a renewed focus on academics, and less distractions based on how students look.
• Uniforms also reduce the peer pressure for students to look a certain way, and help equalize socioeconomic differences.
• The policy also tends to be more cost effective for parents, as they no longer have to buy the most current and trendy clothes.

Finally, the policy tends to reduce the power and authority of “cliques” on  campus by making the students part of a whole, and unifying the student body into one group.

Click for the board approved uniform policy.