Sentences with phrase «racial disparities in discipline rates»

It's about whether the feds should launch proactive investigations in any school system with racial disparities in its discipline rates.

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.

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Letters from the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to school district officials, threatening prosecution if disparities in discipline rates and resources across racial and ethnic lines are not justified, will be withdrawn or simply ignored.

The civil rights concerns, meanwhile, arise from the stark racial disparities in school discipline rates, with African American students about three times more likely than whites to be suspended.

Compare past and present data on physical altercations, suspension rates and incidents, racial disparities in school discipline, standardized test scores, and truancy.

The report considered whether the change in discipline policy was associated with any of the following: (a) district - wide out - of - school suspension rates, (b) academic and behavioral outcomes for students (looking separately at students who had a record of prior suspensions and those with no prior suspensions), and (c) racial disparities in suspensions.

Racial inequality in discipline fuels racial disparities in long - term outcomes for young people, including low graduation rates and disproportionate contact with the criminal justice sRacial inequality in discipline fuels racial disparities in long - term outcomes for young people, including low graduation rates and disproportionate contact with the criminal justice sracial disparities in long - term outcomes for young people, including low graduation rates and disproportionate contact with the criminal justice system.

We know this because racial disparities in grade - level reading, discipline rates, graduation rates, and many other outcomes have repeatedly shown up across the nation.

However, to the contrary, there is racial bias in discipline practices because poverty rates or levels of misbehavior do not entirely explain the disparities.

Despite the persistence of deeply disturbing disparities, the good news is that we estimate a slight reduction nationally in suspension rates for Blacks, Latinos, and Whites at the secondary level, along with a small narrowing of the racial discipline gap.

During the December hearing, Sen. Chris Murphy (D - CT) asked Marcus what he thought about racial disparities in student discipline, such as black students facing harsh discipline at much higher rates than white students.

How School Suspensions Push Black Students Behind The Atlantic February 23, 2016 The racial disparities in school - discipline rates ar...

Furthermore, even in districts with the lowest suspension rates, racial disparities in discipline and schools with high rates of exclusionary discipline are still present.