Students with low prior test scores and students with disabilities were suspended at substantially higher rates than their peers in CPS¶

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Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2018: local conditions change quickly

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Among high school students in the bottom quartile of prior test scores, 27 percent received an OSS in 2013-14; students with disabilities had a 24 percent OSS rate versus 15 percent for those without. → Stevens 2015

Evidence¶

Stevens 2015¶

Stevens, W. D., Sartain, L., Allensworth, E. M., & Levenstein, R., with Guiltinan, S., Mader, N., Huynh, M. H., & Porter, S. (2015). Discipline Practices in Chicago Schools: Trends in the Use of Suspensions and Arrests. UChicago CCSR Research Report. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/discipline-practices-chicago-schools-trends-use-suspensions-and-arrests

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Descriptive analysis of CPS administrative data linking prior-year test scores and disability status to suspension rates. The report states "27 percent received an OSS at the high school level" among bottom-quartile students, and 24 percent for students with disabilities versus 15 percent without.

"Among students with low test scores (scores in the bottom quartile in the prior school year), suspension rates are also very high: 27 percent received an OSS at the high school level and 17 percent received an OSS at the middle school level in the 2013-14 year."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Students with a history of abuse or neglect are at particularly high risk of suspension, with almost a third suspended in 2013-14 — related
• African American boys received out-of-school suspensions at five times the rate of white/Asian boys in CPS high schools in 2013-14 — related
• Arrest rates for CPS students declined after 2009-10, with African American boys arrested at twice the district average rate — related
• Most high school suspensions in CPS resulted from student defiance and rule violations rather than physical conflict — related
• Out-of-school suspension rates in CPS high schools declined each year from 24 percent in 2009-10 to 16 percent in 2013-14 — related
• Black and poor students are suspended from US schools at higher rates than White and nonpoor students — related
• Students who attend schools with higher suspension rates are more likely to be arrested and incarcerated as adults and less likely to attend a 4-year college — related
• Black students and students with disabilities are suspended at disproportionately high rates, and high-poverty schools are more likely to have a School Resource Officer — a broader claim this one bears on
• Students with disabilities are suspended at more than twice the rate of students without disabilities, and Black students with disabilities face the highest risk at 19% — related
• Students of color and students with disabilities are disproportionately suspended and referred to law enforcement relative to their enrollment — related
• Intersecting identities compound suspension risk: 0.1% of Asian girls without special education services in elementary schools were suspended versus 27% of Black boys with disabilities in secondary schools — related