Serena Vela, a student in Fort Bend County, Texas, who was kicked out of high school after being jailed for nine days on truancy-related charges.

A Texas school district has declared that it will stop sending truant students to criminal court pending a “review” of its school attendance policies, days after a BuzzFeed News investigation found that students from the district had been jailed.

The Fort Bend Independent School District said the change in policy stems partly from recent media coverage. Last week BuzzFeed News investigation profiled two students from the district who were jailed on truancy-related charges for more than a week during the school year and who said jail put them so far behind that they never graduated. One student, Serena Vela, was dropped from the rolls the first school day after she was released.

“What happened to Ms. Vela, you know that’s really sad, because that’s not what we want,” said Amanda Bubela, a spokesperson for the school district. “We don’t want a student that’s facing fines. We want a student in the classroom.”

The Houston Chronicle first reported the district’s policy change on Monday.

“With the recent expressed concerns about the way FBISD handles truancy matters, we believe it will be in the best interest of our students and the community for us to re-examine aspects of the system that might need to be improved,” superintendent Charles Dupre wrote in a letter to parents this morning.