St Paul Suspensions drop but racial gap African Am and Native Am 19 and 15 times higher than lowest group Asians
same groups with high suspension tend to perform poor academic measures -- Asian Americans in St. Paul are an exception, rarely disrupting class buts scoring lower in tests.
district began to train its largely white teaching force to examine their own biases and encouraged all employees to speak openly about ways race matters at school...
only about 5 percent of all St. Paul students get suspended in a given year but tremendous disproportionalities.
... teachers complained.. students are going unpunished for serious misbehavior.
Aaron Benner taught at John A.Johnson Elementary but quit to work for a charter school among a group to criticize disciplinary practices in 2013 (see his editorial blaming Critical Race Theory which explains all behavior as just "black culture")
district embraces Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports PBIS sset high expectations of behavior and work.. understand what is causing them to act out(???)
quit because school was not faithful to the model.. cut down transitions students moving to another room cut 40 percent reduction behaviors...
St. Paul school suspensions drop, but racial disparities stick around
POSTED: 10/03/2015 02:19:10 PM CDT
UPDATED: 10/03/2015 11:35:37 PM CDT
Despite reducing overall suspensions by 25 percent over four years, St. Paul Public Schools continues to kick African-American and American Indian students out of school at alarming rates relative to their peers.
In 2010-11, the district set an ambitious goal for racial equity in school discipline: that the student demographic with the most suspensions be excluded from school at no more than twice the rate of the racial group with the fewest suspensions -- Asian-Americans.
The district hasn't come close to its target. Per student last school year, African-Americans were suspended at 19 times the rate of Asian-Americans, and American Indians at 15 times the rate of Asian-Americans.
Any suspension ratios greater than 8-to-1 are considered a "critical" problem on the district's internal report card.
district began to train its largely white teaching force to examine their own biases and encouraged all employees to speak openly about ways race matters at school...
only about 5 percent of all St. Paul students get suspended in a given year but tremendous disproportionalities.
... teachers complained.. students are going unpunished for serious misbehavior.
Aaron Benner taught at John A.Johnson Elementary but quit to work for a charter school among a group to criticize disciplinary practices in 2013 (see his editorial blaming Critical Race Theory which explains all behavior as just "black culture")
district embraces Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports PBIS sset high expectations of behavior and work.. understand what is causing them to act out(???)
quit because school was not faithful to the model.. cut down transitions students moving to another room cut 40 percent reduction behaviors...