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Direct linkTrinidad, Jose Eos – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2021
Although studies on school suspensions focus on the disproportionate number of Black students receiving them, policy changes reducing suspensions offer new insights into the racial gap. Using annual school-level data from the Chicago Public Schools (2012-2016), I evaluate how a suspension reduction policy affected the number of students receiving…
Descriptors: Suspension, Racial Differences, Disproportionate Representation, African American Students
Brett J. Marcum – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examines the impact of an alternative to suspension program on second semester office discipline referrals for participating students. The study compares students who completed the intervention program with those who would have qualified during the school year prior to the program being available at the school district. The study was…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Referral, Suspension, Intervention
Lai, Ijun – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Recently, much public attention has been focused on racial inequalities in who is subjected to exclusionary school disciplinary policies, and consequently, forced to miss hours of instruction. Over the past two decades, researchers have documented the disparate impacts that zero-tolerance policies have had on students of color, low-income…
Descriptors: Suspension, Educational Policy, Student Experience, Racial Bias
Download full textPatrick, Kayla; Onyeka-Crawford, Adaku; Duchesneau, Nancy – Education Trust, 2020
Embedded within school discipline policies, dress codes, or codes of conduct are gender and racial biases that manifest in exclusionary punishments that have more to do with who girls are rather than what they do. Girls of color face some of the greatest barriers to educational opportunities and social emotional growth inside schools with poor…
Descriptors: Females, Minority Group Students, Barriers, Equal Education
Hinze-Pifer, Rebecca; Sartain, Lauren – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
A substantial body of descriptive work documents large correlations between suspension and a variety of negative future outcomes, both for suspended students and for students who are never suspended but attend schools with high suspension rates (Balfanz, Byrnes, & Fox, 2015; Davis and Jordan, 1994; Dawson, 1991; Fabelo et al., 2011).…
Descriptors: Suspension, Discipline Policy, Academic Achievement, Attendance
Commission on Human Relations, Chicago, IL. – 1977
This report describes problems directly related to the present method of dealing with suspension and expulsion in the Chicago public schools and recommends specific strategies for dealing with these problems. Problems discussed include: (1) the need for a definition of "gross misconduct"; (2) the need for the dissemination of information…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Disadvantaged Youth, Discipline Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
