{"id":5348,"date":"2018-09-27T07:40:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T11:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawyerscom.org\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2019-05-14T23:45:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T23:45:43","slug":"report-on-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/our-impact\/education\/report-on-discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NEW REPORT EXAMINES SCHOOL DISCIPLINE IN\u00a0MASSACHUSETTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Discipline Rates Drop, But Disconcerting\u00a0Disparities Remain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>September 27, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Boston, MA \u2013 A comprehensive report issued today by the Lawyers\u2019 Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice examines the state of school discipline in Massachusetts.\u00a0 The report, <em>Unfinished Business<\/em>, shows that while measurable progress has been made in reducing school suspensions over the past several years, this progress has plateaued, and our most vulnerable students remain disproportionately affected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMassachusetts has taken steps forward on school discipline, but much work remains to be done,\u201d stated Iv\u00e1n Espinoza-Madrigal, Executive Director of the Lawyers\u2019 Committee.\u00a0 \u201cIn particular, Black and Latino students, students with disabilities, and English language learners are still far more likely than their peers to lose class time for discipline, especially for more minor incidents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Massachusetts public schools began implementing Chapter 222, a law to reduce reliance on exclusionary school discipline.\u00a0Massachusetts did so with good reason: being suspended predicts dropping out, and almost two-thirds of the state\u2019s out-of-school suspensions from the prior year were for minor incidents \u2013 the cause for which Black and Latino students were most likely to be suspended. \u00a0Today\u2019s report examines a wealth of data collected since that time, and makes the following key findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discipline rates have dropped for all students, but progress has plateaued.<\/li>\n<li>Black and Latino students, students with disabilities, and English language learners disproportionately lose class time for discipline, often for minor incidents.<\/li>\n<li>While charter school discipline rates have dropped significantly, charters remain among the highest disciplining schools, along with alternative schools, therapeutic day schools, and, in general, schools in Massachusetts\u2019 Pioneer Valley.<\/li>\n<li>Due to off-the-books suspensions, school-based arrests, and other types of removal, Massachusetts\u2019 disciplinary data does not tell the whole story on school discipline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe still have a long way to go in Massachusetts in order to ensure that all of our children have equal educational opportunity,\u201d stated Espinoza-Madrigal.\u00a0 \u201cTogether with our community allies, the Lawyers\u2019 Committee will continue to tackle these critical issues of educational equity until that goal is realized.\u201d<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Unfinished-Business-PDF.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Unfinished-Business-PDF<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW REPORT EXAMINES SCHOOL DISCIPLINE IN\u00a0MASSACHUSETTS Discipline Rates Drop, But Disconcerting\u00a0Disparities Remain September 27, 2018 Boston, MA \u2013 A comprehensive report issued today by the Lawyers\u2019 Committee for Civil Rights 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