Over 60% of the largest school districts reported zero school-related arrests, and no state had fully met ESSA school-policing report-card requirements¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r1–r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2020 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2025: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Over 60% of the largest school districts, including New York City and Los Angeles, reported zero school-related arrests, suggesting the 2015-16 school-policing data were incomplete or missing. → Losen 2020 q2 i? As of July 2020, not one state had fully met ESSA's requirement to publicly report school-policing data in annual state and district report cards. → Losen 2020 (2)

Evidence¶

Losen 2020¶

Losen, D. J., & Martinez, P. (2020). Lost opportunities: How disparate school discipline continues to drive differences in the opportunity to learn. Learning Policy Institute; Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project, UCLA. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED608537

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Analysis of 2015-16 CRDC school-policing reporting, finding that "over 60% of the largest school districts" reported zero arrests, which the authors interpret as evidence of underreporting. Descriptive compliance review.

"over 60% of the largest school districts (including New York City and Los Angeles) reported zero school-related arrests. The prevalence of zeros suggests that much of the school-policing data from 2015–16 required by the federal Office for Civil Rights (OCR) were incomplete or missing."

Losen 2020 (2)¶

Losen, D. J., & Martinez, P. (2020). Lost opportunities: How disparate school discipline continues to drive differences in the opportunity to learn. Learning Policy Institute; Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project, UCLA. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED608537

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Policy-compliance review of state report cards against ESSA's requirement to publish collected school-policing data, finding universal noncompliance as of July 2020. The report frames this as a major oversight failure.

"As of July 2020, not one state had fully met ESSA' s state and district report card obligation regarding their 2017–18 school-policing data."

Discussion¶

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