PO092: Impact of Black Student Population and Staffing on Exclusionary Discipline

  • PMD: 5,6
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 3: Promoting Safe and Positive Schools

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. understand the relationship between the percentage of Black students in a school and exclusionary discipline rates;
  2. understand the relationship between the number of full-time law enforcement, mental health staff, and teacher years of experience and exclusionary discipline rates; and
  3. consider how staffing decisions can improve exclusionary discipline rates.

Description

Learn about how the following factors predict school suspension rates: percentage of Black students, number of law enforcement staff, number of mental health staff, and teacher years of experience.

Presenter(s)

Linsey R. Donovan, University of California Riverside

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