HCPSS MPIA Request #2020-359

Requested Information
The June 5, 2019 report to the Board of Education titled "Equity: Responding to Performance and Opportunity Gaps in HCPSS" contained information on absenteeism, suspension rate, and academic growth in the form of one or two dots in a matrix. I am requesting the actual data for each student group for the 2017 - 2018 school year as in previous reports on student discipline. Be sure to include each racial group, FARMs, ELL, and special education.
Date Received
Status
Complete
Response Notes

Responsive to this request, per discussions you were seeking the type of suspension data found in the July 14, 2016 report on suspension and/or submitted to the State, please find the SY19 Disproportionate Discipline Data Report which contains SY16-18 trends (Attachment A after p. 8 and tables starting on page 15): https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/hcpssmd/Board.nsf/files/BBBH73470C4B/$file/04%2025%202019%20Disproportionate%20Discipline%20Data%20BR.pdf. Staff also indicates data values related to the Table 1 on p. 8 of the Equity Report can be found on pp. 21-22 at the end of this same report.

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