Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 1. March 2013 02:28
In a February 26, 2013 press release, the U.S. Department of Education’s Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the settlement of complaints that a large Florida school district discriminated against students in its enrollment and discipline processes based on limited English proficiency and parents’ national origin or immigration status. After the investigation of the complaints [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 9. August 2012 01:07
According to an August 2012 analysis of U.S. Department of Education (ED) data, over three million students are estimated to have lost instructional time due to out-of-school suspensions during the 2009-10 school year. “That’s about the number of children it would [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 9. March 2012 00:52
On March 6, 2012 the U.S. Department of Education (ED), Office of Civil Rights (OCR) released the results of a first-of-its kind Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) that reveals serious educational inequities in the nation’s K-12 schools. In a press release, ED acknowledged that the CRDC reflects that African-American and Hispanic students, [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 22. July 2011 02:21
In a July 19, 2011 press release the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center announced that the results of its six year study on disciplinary actions involving nearly 1 million students in Texas public secondary schools revealed that nearly 60 percent of the 7th through 12th graders had been subjected to at least one school suspension or expulsion. [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 22. October 2010 19:57
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Author: Ryan Paiva | Posted: 27. July 2009 23:33
Like the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Section 504 regulation requires school districts to establish a system of a system of procedural safeguards (due process) to govern the identification, evaluation, or placement of students with disabilities who need or are believed to need special instruction. Procedural safeguards are also required with regard to the discipline of Section 504 students. [More]
