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They should also be held accountable for racial disparities in discipline.
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A follow - up blog post from the Department of Education explains how the guidance will work to ensure that discipline is fair and reduces racial disparities in discipline practices.
Actually, that's what many people on the left do claim, and that was the basis for the Obama Administration's 2014 Dear Colleague Letter on the topic, which gave the Office for Civil Rights (and Justice Department) the authority to investigate school districts based on racial disparities in discipline rates alone.
Listen: CCRR's Director Dan Losen and Assistant Superintendent Andre Denson talk about efforts to reduce racial disparities in discipline in a Nevada school district in a Nevada Public Radio piece that asks «Why Does Clark County Have High Rates Of Expulsion Among Minorities?»
To further the impact of these policy shifts, we as educators and school leaders must commit to explore our biases, to learn about and use alternatives to exclusionary practices, if we are to succeed in eliminating racial disparities in discipline and student achievement.
A brand new study out of the University of Arkansas, like research before it, found that most racial disparities in discipline come from differences between schools, not within them.
It then summarizes recent racial disparities in discipline, as reported in the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC).
From the administration's perspective, though, time was of the essence, both because excessive suspensions and the like were causing material damage to affected students and because racial disparities in discipline represented a violation of students» civil rights.
It's about whether the feds should launch proactive investigations in any school system with racial disparities in its discipline rates.
In this interview with teacher leader Maya Kruger, Luis discusses community building in his classroom and beyond and shares about his passion for ending racial disparities in discipline.
Racial disparities in discipline stem from differential treatment of students of color for minor and subjective infractions.
The campaign comes as Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) move to implement a resolution agreement from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights to change their policies after an investigation revealed racial disparities in discipline.
As in New York, this catch - all category of minor offenses accounted for a significant percentage of all student suspensions in California and some of the largest racial disparities in discipline.
They found that similar to national trends, participating schools showed racial disparities in their discipline practices, with African - American students more likely to be cited for «subjective actions» (e.g., defiance).
In October 2013, DSC released a new revised version of the Model Code, which includes new sections on: social and emotional learning, prevention and response to bullying behavior, reducing tickets and summonses issued in school, reducing racial disparities in discipline through culturally responsive classroom management, creating safe schools for LGBTQ students and other topics.
The report, published Jan. 6, found that traditional public schools and public charter schools in the District have made little progress in closing racial disparities in discipline.
There are also the problems that often accompany poverty that, coupled with Nashville's painful history of segregation and racial disparities in discipline practices, have perpetuated inequities among its students for decades.
In a 1992 decision, the Supreme Court allowed a more expansive reading of the law, a decision that has been interpreted as requiring districts to eliminate racial disparities in discipline and to seek equity in academic achievement.
For example, I mentioned that the new administration is likely to withdraw guidance from the Obama administration that warned districts that racial disparities in discipline rates would draw scrutiny from the Office of Civil Rights.
«The tendency to base classroom observation on the gender and race of the child may explain in part why those children are more frequently identified as misbehaving and hence why there is a racial disparity in discipline,» added Walter S. Gilliam, director of The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy and associate professor of child psychiatry and psychology at the Yale Child Study Center.
And we worry that it rests on a faulty assumption — that any racial disparity in discipline reflects discrimination rather than differences in student behavior.
The report card issues grades on in school and out - of - school suspensions, expulsions, underground pushout, police in schools, racial disparities in discipline, restorative practices, training and support for educators, data collection and community awareness.
More than three quarters — 76 % — of teachers surveyed by a chapter of Educators for Excellence said that they wanted more training so that they would not contribute to racial disparities in discipline.
Furthermore, even in districts with the lowest suspension rates, racial disparities in discipline and schools with high rates of exclusionary discipline are still present.
There are also the problems that often accompany poverty that, coupled with Nashville's painful history of segregation and racial disparities in discipline practices, have perpetuated inequities among its students for decades.