National school crime indicators show schools became safer as exclusionary discipline reductions were underway, with 79% of schools recording incidents in 2015-16 versus 85-89% in prior years¶
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q2 i? The percentage of public schools recording one or more incidents of violence, theft, or other crimes was lower in 2015-16 (79%) than in every prior survey year. → Cardichon 2019
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Cardichon 2019¶
Cardichon, J., & Darling-Hammond, L. (2019). Protecting students' civil rights: The federal role in school discipline. Palo Alto, CA: Learning Policy Institute. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/student-civil-rights-school-discipline doi:10.33682/a3vc-nfcx
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The report cites the NCES Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2017 survey: schools recording incidents fell to 79% in 2015-16 from a prior range of 85-89%, and police-reported incidents fell to 47% from 60-65%.
"percentage of public schools recording one or more incidents of violence, theft, or other crimes was lower in 2015–16 (79%) than in every prior survey year. (Incident rates ranged from 85 to 89% between 1999–2000 and 2009–10.)"
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Related Claims¶
- Common non-curricular policing strategies show no overall effects on measures of school crime or discipline — related
- School-based law enforcement use is associated with greater crime and behavior problems in studies using schools as the unit of analysis — related
- Schools implementing restorative justice report decreases in exclusionary discipline such as suspensions and expulsions — related
- Experts report reduced suspensions and expulsions and improved school climate as RJ implementation successes — related
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National school crime indicators show schools became safer as exclusionary discipline reductions were underway, with 79% of schools recording incidents in 2015-16 versus 85-89% in prior years |
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National school crime indicators show schools became safer as exclusionary discipline reductions were underway, with 79% of schools recording incidents in 2015-16 versus 85-89% in prior years |
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