Sentences with phrase «higher discipline rates»

States with particular high stakes policies tend to have higher discipline rates, defined as the unduplicated count of students removed from school by school personnel or hearing officers and students serving long - term suspensions.

Rewards that are correlated with higher discipline rates include: student non-monetary awards and / or recognition, student financial awards, and bonuses or monetary rewards for buildings.

Members of Congress debated a directive to drive down disproportionately high discipline rates for students of color with Republicans questioning whether similar policies in a Florida district allowed the accused Parkland, Fla., shooter to avoid being arrested despite his reportedly frequent discipline issues at school.

In fact, some of the local charter school networks with the highest discipline rates have long enjoyed reputations as «beat the odds» schools that supposedly serve students of color better than the Minneapolis Public Schools.

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«We were particularly encouraged to see fiscal discipline in light of the continued economic uncertainty seen elsewhere in Canada and the world, the establishment of a commission on tax competitiveness to evaluate current taxation instruments like the provincial sales tax, and proposed changes to the property transfer tax to start addressing housing affordability by increasing the exemption threshold and introducing a third tax rate on higher - valued properties.»

High strikeout rate High walk rates (as a proxy for plate discipline) High pitches / PA High balls / PA

High levels of suspension rates for black and Hispanic students, and boys in particular, have been an issue of contention since the discipline code was strengthened during the Bloomberg era.

She has defended her schools» high standards and has railed against the city's de-escalation of discipline policies that led to skyrocketing rates of suspensions for minority students.

A few of the included studies had done so and found, for example, that admission rates tend to be higher in males compared to females [42] and in mid-career compared to early career scientists [19], and that they tend to differ between disciplines [41], [53].

Lattimer also wants to determine if coaching can increase the low completion rates of online higher - education courses, especially for students who don't have great preparation or self - discipline.

I gave higher service and atmosphere ratings to schools in which children were assigned some clean - up duties, encouraged to recycle utensils, and disciplined to keep lunchrooms orderly and clean.

But it was an inner - city high school, initially primarily black, in later years increasingly Hispanic, with all the attributes common to such: poor scores on the various tests, district, state and national, that have come over the years to evaluate schools; poor attendance; low graduation rates; and serious student discipline problems.

In my research on teacher - student race match and student discipline, we find that black students (who by far experience the highest rates of suspensions and expulsions) who have a same - race teacher are less likely to experience exclusionary discipline.

Evidence from Arkansas and elsewhere indicates that the discipline disparities found at the district level are often driven by sky - high suspension rates in a handful of high - poverty schools.

The State Graduation Briefs contain national and state - specific data on this group's achievement levels, discipline rates, and high school outcomes.

In a separate study, Russell Skiba and Natasha Williams further revealed that black students in the same schools or districts were not engaged in levels of disruptive behavior that would warrant higher rates of exclusionary discipline than white peers.

They point to application barriers at some charter schools and high expulsion rates at others as evidence that the charter sector as a whole may be skimming the most motivated, disciplined students and leaving the hardest - to - reach behind.

During his tenure, OUSD saw increased graduation rates, decreases in out - of - school discipline, a decade - high investment in teacher pay, and historic improvements in district operations.

Roxbury Prep has been criticized for its strict discipline and high suspension rates — suspending nearly 60 percent of its students out - of - school during the 2012 - 13 school year.

Research has consistently demonstrated that low - income students who attend smaller high schools have better academic outcomes in terms of achievement, graduation rates, and discipline issues than their peers in larger schools.

But even if one school has a student population that is 75 percent black and 25 percent white, and the other has those percentages reversed, there is still no evidence of any form of discrimination if the school with the majority black students has a higher overall discipline rate.

Research shows that implementing SWPBIS results in a significant drop in discipline referrals and suspensions, as well as increased academic achievement, lower dropout rates, higher teacher retention, and improved school culture.11

However, because schools with larger populations of black students have higher average exclusionary discipline rates overall, race - matched students at those schools are not necessarily less likely to experience such measures.

... instances where students of a particular race, as compared to students of other races, are disproportionately: sanctioned at higher rates; disciplined for specific offenses; subjected to longer sanctions or more severe penalties; removed from the regular school setting to an alternative school setting; or excluded from one or more educational programs or activities.

SAAS is also examining the unintended consequences of high stakes testing for students with disabilities in areas such as placement in the least restrictive environment, graduation rates and discipline.

States with a higher percentage of students with disabilities in regular class 80 % or more of the time tend to have lower discipline rates.

In 2013, the California Department of Education reported alarmingly high rates of suspension and expulsions for black and brown boys in LAUSD, which meant these students were spending more time receiving discipline and less time receiving instruction.

The innovation charter schools allow in curriculum, structure, discipline, instruction, and operation could well help to reduce the frightful 30 percent average dropout rate in our public high schools, which is more than 50 percent for African - American, Latino and Native American children.

Last month, an opinion piece on Bloomberg.com encouraged the DoE to withdraw their guidance and let schools and districts manage their discipline policies without oversight — despite clear evidence that prior to the 2014 guidance, African American students and other groups were (and in many cases still are) more likely to receive heavier punishment for the same offenses than white students, and to be suspended at a higher rate.

Our research - based processes improve the five key indicators of school performance: fewer discipline referrals, improved attendance, higher student achievement, lower dropout rates, and higher teacher satisfaction.

On - time graduation rate rose from 48 % to 65 % between 2010 and 2014, enrollment has grown from 830 students in 2010 to 1300 in 2015, and Stall High School (91 % poverty rate) reported discipline referrals dropped 50 %.

In 2013, the Syracuse City School District (SCSD) faced high rates of exclusionary and disproportional discipline and was being investigated by the New York State Attorney General's Office.

Asserting its right to investigate based on data and providing tools to proactively address disparate discipline rates is a natural part of the federal government's role in ensuring equitable and high - quality education for all students.

A new report from the UCLA Civil Rights Project criticizes charter schools for using overly harsh discipline practices at rates higher than other public schools.

To create What We Know about Reducing Disproportionate Suspension Rates for Students of Color, a literature summary for the Oregon Leadership Network Research Alliance, we examined over 8,900 articles in search of evidence of school and classroom practices that can help reduce disproportionality in discipline referrals and suspensions for middle and high school students.

Andrew Broy, president of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools, noted that the data show several charter schools do not have high expulsion rates, and discounted the argument that charters use discipline to improve their academic record.

The lack of diversity in the teaching profession, combined with these differing interpretations of student ability and behavior, may partially explain why students of color are suspended or expelled from all levels of school at disproportionate rates.23 Such harsh discipline practices place them at higher risk of subsequent academic disengagement and increase the probability that they will later drop out.24 While these mindsets may be unintentional, their prevalence greatly affects students» performance and behavior.

· Similar to many districts across the state and nation, students of color have disproportionately higher rates of discipline incidents.

The program puts an emphasis on reducing significant disproportionality, meaning that schools do not discipline students of a particular race or ethnicity at a higher rate than other students.

addressed to U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, requesting that the U.S. Department of Education stay on track to implement new data tracking rules that would standardize how states identify school districts with «significant disproportionality,» or high rates of students from particular racial or ethnic groups that are placed in restrictive settings or are subject to discipline.

While they've made academic gains in struggling communities, KIPP and other large charter networks have come under fire recently for high student attrition rates, discipline issues and failing to meet states» standards.

That 2014 civil rights guidance — jointly issued by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice — put schools on notice that they may be found in violation of federal civil rights laws if they enforce intentially discriminatory rules or if their policies lead to disproportionately higher rates of discipline for students in one racial group, even if those policies were written without discriminatory intent.

A relative scarcity of black teachers may partially explain why black students face exclusionary discipline at much higher rates than other students.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, A + Colorado, and 111 other organizations signed a letter addressed to U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, requesting that the U.S. Department of Education stay on track to implement new data tracking rules that would standardize how states identify school districts with «significant disproportionality,» or high rates of students from particular racial or ethnic groups that are placed in restrictive settings or are subject to discipline.

Implemented in an elementary school with low academic achievement rates and a high percentage of special education students classified with emotional disturbance, the UD program helped the school develop unified attitudes, expectations, consequences and team roles school - wide to improve discipline at all grade levels.

At all levels - elementary, middle, and high - schools experienced moderate but steady improvements in school discipline, student safety policy and training, staff perceptions of student behavior, and student suspension and chronic tardiness rates.

DENVER — A Colorado school superintendent said Friday he will keep disciplining students by placing them in isolated, 4 - by -6-foot rooms to study during school hours as an alternative to expulsion and as a way to reduce a high dropout rate.

Restorative justice as an educational policy relates to disciplinary policy and practices that strives to provide an alternative to punitive discipline, which leads to high suspension and expulsion rates.

15 Marguerite Spencer, a Professor at University of St. Thomas, finds children studying in integrated schools have «[a] higher level of parental involvement, higher graduation rates, complete more years of education, earn higher degrees and major in more varied disciplines, gain greater access to professional jobs and have higher incomes 16.

Chicago schools with high rates of suspensions and expulsions served extremely vulnerable, segregated populations, while those with low levels of exclusionary discipline did not.