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(AP) — Connecticut government officials and educators are crediting a variety of efforts for a significant decrease in arrests at schools across the state over the past several years. Educators say studies show kids placed into the juvenile justice system are more likely to reoffend and less likely to graduate from high school and get jobs. In 2011, the state Judicial Branch informed all school superintendents and police chiefs in Connecticut that it was going to begin rejecting referrals to Juvenile Court for minor misbehavior like fighting and disobeying teachers, said Cathy Foley Geib, manager of clinical and education services for the Judicial Branch's Court Support Services Division. Twenty-one schools in 10 districts in the state also have participated in the Connecticut School-Based Diversion Initiative, a program that brings together educators, police, mental health providers and community organizations in efforts to reduce school arrests and find alternatives to expulsions and out-of-school suspensions.

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