Students with a history of abuse or neglect are at particularly high risk of suspension, with almost a third suspended in 2013-14¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2014 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2019: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Almost a third of students with a history of abuse or neglect were suspended in the 2013-14 school year, and these students are concentrated in high-suspending schools. → Sartain 2014

Evidence¶

Sartain 2014¶

Sartain, L., Allensworth, E., & Porter, S. (2014). Suspending Chicago's Students: Differences in Discipline across Schools. UChicago Consortium. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/suspending-chicagos-students-differences-discipline-practices-across-schools

q2 · i? · associational · r?

Observational analysis linking Chicago discipline records with child welfare data for the first time. The report found "almost a third of the students with a history of abuse or neglect were suspended in the 2013-14 school year"; in almost all high-suspending high schools at least 10 percent of students had a documented abuse or neglect history.

"For the first time, researchers were able to combine discipline data with child welfare data and found that almost a third of the students with a history of abuse or neglect were suspended in the 2013-14 school year."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Adverse Experiences — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• Students with low prior test scores and students with disabilities were suspended at substantially higher rates than their peers in CPS — related
• A subset of about a quarter of Chicago high schools and 10 percent of middle-grades schools have very high suspension rates, almost all predominantly serving African-American students — related
• Schools with strong essential supports were more likely to sit in communities with strong social capital, low crime, and low density of abused or neglected children — related