Conflicting research results have not stopped schools from requiring uniforms.

To counter this trend, a lot of schools have started requiring uniforms.

It would take a lot more than requiring uniforms to quell their inventiveness.

Aside from charter schools, no public school district on the Island requires uniforms.

But the official said that the intention was eventually to require uniforms of students in all grade levels.

In Washington, 39 elementary schools, about a third of the system, and two junior high schools, now require uniforms.

By 2010, the proportion of US public schools requiring uniforms had increased from 3% in 1996 to 25%.

Since the 2011-2012 school year it is the only middle school in the district that requires uniforms.

Woodland has a dress code for students, but does not require uniforms.

The Thompson plan would require uniforms for grade school beginning in the fall of 1999.