Sentences with phrase «number of suspensions»

She noted that the state's overall number of suspensions for all students in kindergarten through grade 12 has declined by about 14 percent in the past five years.

Summary: The high numbers of suspensions in US schools have sparked an important debate among educators, physicians, and lawmakers on the effectiveness of Out of School Suspension (OSS), with particular emphasis on whether it does more harm than good.

We know their «positive recognition of good behavior» methods resulted inthe highest number of suspensions of any school in the state, with 32.5 percent of elementary school students and 49.4 percent of middle school students having at least one in - school suspension, out - of - school suspension, or expulsion.

In the latest news story about the massive number of suspensions of children aged six and under, the Hartford Courant looked at the data that was released last week by Connecticut's Child Advocate.

The total number of suspensions fell 24 percent, from 16,762 in 2014 - 2015 to 12,695 in the past school year.

The Department of Education focused upon discipline management because of the disproportionately large number of suspensions, particularly out - of - school suspensions, being given to minority students.

Chancellor Fariña also penned a Feb. 1 op - ed in the Daily News claiming that «Renewal Schools are seeing real progress» and pointing in part to higher scores on state tests and lower numbers of suspensions.

Between 2008 - 2009 and 2009 - 2010 suspension rates (number of suspensions per 100 students) at Liechty and Hollenbeck middle schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District decreased from 19.2 to 10.6 and from 16.0 to 14.9, respectively.

Ms. Moskowitz said that the question of what was an appropriate number of suspensions was a complicated one, but that the suspension rate in public schools should not be regarded as «the gold standard.»

When dr. Alonzo came, he came to a staggering number of suspensions in Baltimore city schools.

Most recently, SFUSD announced last week that efforts to reduce the disproportionate number of suspensions among black students has been a success, bringing them down 17 percent from last year as the district implements more proactive policies, ranging from daily check - ins to rewards for good behavior, according to a district press release.

Brown says families are frustrated by a lack of equal representation on Marshall's school board, and are disturbed by the high number of suspensions last year at Harrington Elementary, located in Albion.

«We went through three times the normal number of suspension iterations to find a set - up that delivered the exciting driving experience demanded of an ST model, but also comfort and refinement for everyday driving.»

This disparity, as well as national trends toward disproportionate numbers of suspensions for African American and Latino students, led LAUSD to reexamine school discipline policies in 2013 with the School Climate Bill of Rights.

Summary: The high numbers of suspensions in US schools have sparked an important debate among educators, physicians, and lawmakers on the effectiveness of Out of School Suspension (OSS), with particular emphasis on whether it does more harm than good.

However, overdiscipline was not just a phenomenon of the NCLB era; data gathered from Senator Murphy's home state of Connecticut showed a large number of suspensions and expulsions resulting from simple infractions such as cutting class or use of swear words by students over the years.

In those studies, for example, a student who has been suspended six times during a school year will count as one student, but in the analysis below, those six suspensions would all count towards a school's total number of suspensions.

And that's before we get into the abuse of special education students, the highest number of suspensions in the state, the appalling attrition numbers from 9 - 12 grade which underly the «100 % of our seniors go to a four year college.»

NYC city was able to reduce the number of suspensions for school kids by 17 % over the last academic year — about 9,000 fewer suspensions than the year before, education officials said.

About $ 1 million for training in restorative justice practices in District 18 schools to reduce the number of suspensions.

Assessing the effect of stability during both compound and trunk flexion exercises, Mok et al. (2014) assessed the muscle activity of the abdominals in a number of suspension exercises including the hip abduction plank (feet in straps), press up, inverted row and hamstring curl (feet in straps).

The debate follows recent revelations that the number of suspensions for assaults on school staff trebled between 2014/15 and 2015/16.

Second, even if reforms succeed in decreasing the number of suspensions, do they also succeed in reducing disproportionate suspension rates by race and disability?

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights announced this spring that the number of suspensions and expulsions in the nation's public schools had dropped 20 percent between 2012 and 2014.

For example, we ran some analyses with the number of suspensions and expulsions, as an indicator of discipline policies.

The four - year graduation rate climbed to 82.1 percent and the number of suspensions decreased.

In addition, public school districts are required by Title IV (Safe and Drug - Free Schools) and by Title X (Unsafe School Choice Option) of the Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to report the number of suspensions and expulsions for specific types of student behaviors.

The BCR study calculated suspension rates as the number of suspensions involving a particular race divided by the student enrollment of that race.

While we have not yet studied whether any student groups have been specifically targeted, we can say that the number of suspensions and expulsions has dropped since the reforms, for African American students and others alike.

Threatening districts with civil rights investigations may reduce the number of suspensions, especially for children of color, but it may also increase disorder in the classroom by depriving teachers of an effective tool for maintaining order.

From 2012 - 2015, the number of suspensions in the state fell from 539,134 to 334,649, a decline of 37.9 percent.

The report's authors contend that the high number of suspensions and the large discrepancies in the populations of students who are suspended are extremely troubling not only because of the lost learning time, but also because suspensions are a leading indicator of whether a child will drop out of school and face future incarceration.

For the sake of shielding the confidentiality of students, California's public databases report only a «*,» and not the number of suspensions, when the annual count is fewer than 11 suspensions.

The high - suspension - rate schools are where the most dramatic decline in the number of suspensions has occurred, but they are also where most suspensions of black students continue to occur.

Figure 3 - 1 displays statistics for the state's four largest ethnic groups, showing the number of suspensions for each group.

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What can we do to decrease the number of suspensions and expulsions in our schools?

We wanted to reduce the number of suspensions and find ways to deter the behaviors that were putting students out of school,» he said.

«The Texas report revealed that the number of suspensions has exceeded any kind of common sense,» said Kavitha Mediratta, program executive for children and youth at Atlantic Philanthropies, a grant - making organization that works to improve opportunities for disadvantaged people.

Between 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13, the number of expulsions dropped 13.5 percent, while the number of suspensions decreased 10.2 percent (Table 4).

A petition signed by Bullard High School teachers asks Fresno Unified leaders to implement a consistent discipline policy that lays out clear consequences for offenses, pushing the district to step up its current policy, which focuses on more positive alternatives to misbehavior in order to lower the numbers of suspensions and expulsions.

During the four years Bass has been principal, the number of suspensions each month has fallen from 45 to about 10.