KEEPING CALIFORNIA'S KIDS IN SCHOOL

Recently the California Department of Education released new data on school discipline. This report compares this year’s data release covering 2012-13 to the data released last year covering 2011-12. We find a reduction in the use of out-of-school suspension for every racial/ethnic group. Specifically, based on the statewide averages for 2011-2012 and 2012-2013, progress was made for every racial/ethnic subgroup toward reducing the rate of out-of-school suspensions (OSS) per 100 students enrolled from the prior year.

You may access the full report here: Keeping California's Kids In School

You may access the spreadsheet here.

Data source and limitations: The state and district level data used to construct this report and compare years, include data on every district in California collected by the state and available on the state’s Department of Education website. We have conducted the additional analysis on racial gaps and trends over time. We provide that information for every district in a sortable spreadsheet that accompanies this report. The state has discouraged comparisons with reported data from earlier years because the definitions, collection methods and other inconsistencies make such comparisons unreliable.

All analyses based on flat file data from the the California Department of Education, dated February 5, 2014. Flat file publicly available at http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sd/sd/filesesd.asp. All analyses completed by The Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project, UCLA. Cite as: Analysis by Center for Civil Rights Remedies, Civil Rights Project, UCLA, 2014 accessed at http://www.schooldisciplinedata.org/docs/1213-CDE-California-District-Suspension-Rates-20140320.xlsx. These analyses are intended to inform planning activities by school districts and are not to be used as the basis of a published research report.

© UCLA Civil Rights Project 2014. All Rights Reserved. No part of this spreadsheet or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied, modified or adapted for research and publication purposes without the prior written consent of the authors. You may use the data in this spreadsheet for school district planning purposes. Commercial Use and Distribution of the contents of this spreadsheet not allowed without express and prior written consent of the authors.