All were required to attend
school during the suspension periods, but were permitted only to study, not to attend classes, said Nicholas Olsen, the school's principal.
Not exact matches
During the
suspension period,
school officials will investigate the incident to determine whether the student should be permanently expelled, according to Rosa Quezada, deputy superintendent.
The shift has brought dramatic changes:
Suspensions districtwide plummeted to 0.55 % last
school year compared with 8 % in 2007 - 08, and days lost to
suspension also plunged, to 5,024 from 75,000
during that same
period, according to the most recent data.
That said, researchers found that in -
school suspension rates have nearly doubled among African American high
school students
during the study
period.
Primary outcome measures were changes in absenteeism,
school rule infractions and
suspension days
during the four - month pretest
period prior to randomization compared with the four - month intervention
period.
Assessments conducted at earlier phases are specified in previous articles.7, 8 At the 15 - year follow - up assessment, adolescents completed interviews that measured whether they had been adjudicated a person in need of supervision (PINS) resulting from incorrigible behavior such as recurrent truancy or destroying parents» property; their frequency of running away from home; and the number of times they had been stopped by the police, arrested, convicted of a crime or of probation violations, and sent to youth correctional facilities.14 They also reported on their disruptive behavior in
school; number of
school suspensions; delinquent and aggressive behavior outside
school; experience of sexual intercourse; rates of pregnancy; lifetime number of sexual partners; and frequency of using cigarettes, alcohol, and illegal drugs
during the 6 - month
period prior to the 15 - year interview.15