Sentences with phrase «with high suspension rates»

Schools with higher suspension rates also have greater teacher attrition and turnover.

The current study can not draw causal conclusions, but altering the structural characteristics of schools associated with higher suspension rates should be considered in future reform efforts.

Advocates call for schools with high suspension rates to receive technical assistance in adopting «proven - effective» systematic supports.

While zero - tolerance policies aim to improve school climate and safety by removing disruptive students, research evidence finds that teachers and students in schools with high suspension rates report feeling less safe than their counterparts in schools serving similar students that have lower suspension rates.

For example, Montana and Idaho were shown to have the smallest suspension gap between African American and white students, but were among eight states in the nation with the highest suspension rates for Native American students (Losen & Gillespie, 2012).

Comparing schools with similar demographic characteristics, suspended students are more likely to reoffend, and schools with higher suspension rates do worse academically overall.

The Rogers Park Young Women's Action Team (YWAT) agrees with what the American Psychological Association (APA) recently found: that zero tolerance policies fail to make schools safer and that schools with high suspension rates score worse on standardized tests.

«With all things being equal [i.e. controlling for race, socio - economics, and school type],» Black says, «academic achievement is lower in schools with higher suspension rates.»

The UCLA Civil Rights Project (PDF, 30.3 MB) has found that schools with high suspension rates are less safe, less equitable, and have lower academic outcomes.

Table 3 - 1 sorts schools into two groups, those with high suspension rates (0.05 or greater) for African - American students and those with low rates (less than 0.05).

According an Education Week interview with one of the researchers involved in the report, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Chicago are districts that have many schools with high suspension rates.

Brown in his veto message said the bill would have required the state schools chief to keep a list of schools with high suspension rates and invite the districts to attend meetings to discuss the problem.

We are publishing this report because of the serious academic implications these statistics have for students who attend schools with high suspension rates.

Studies of Texas and Indiana comparing demographically similar districts showed that those with lower suspension rates tended to have achievement and graduation numbers that were equal to or better than those with higher suspension rates.