{"id":156252,"date":"2023-12-05T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/districtadministration.com\/?p=156252"},"modified":"2023-12-06T08:38:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T13:38:50","slug":"student-discipline-behavior-trends-solutions-school-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/districtadministration.com\/student-discipline-behavior-trends-solutions-school-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"8 promising solutions to the outsize impacts of student discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student discipline continues to have an outsize impact on certain students, particularly Black boys and girls and students with disabilities. These groups, along with white and multi-racial boys, are suspended and expelled at rates that remain higher than their shares of total K12 enrollment, the latest data shows.<\/p>\n

At the same time, solutions are emerging and evolving as K12 leaders work to reverse the trend and eliminate the school-to-prison pipeline.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot be complacent when the data repeatedly tells us that the race, sex, or disability of students continue to dramatically impact everything from access to advanced placement courses to the availability of school counselors to the use of exclusionary and traumatic disciplinary practices,” U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in a recent statement.<\/p>\n

Disciplinary disparities<\/h2>\n

Black boys are more than twice as likely<\/a> to be suspended than their white male classmates, according to a November report from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.<\/p>\n

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Overall, about 638,700 students were suspended (out-of-school) at least once and about 28,300 were expelled in the most recent year for which national data was available, 2020-21. Black students, among other groups, are also overrepresented when it comes to arrests and law enforcement referrals:<\/p>\n