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Introduction to School Discipline. LAAC Traveling Training Sac. CA Dec. 8, 2010. Alternative Schools. ADA collectors and dead-end tracks for minority & other low-income students Disproportionate enrollment of ethnic/racial and/or LEP students - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Introduction to School Discipline
LAAC Traveling Training
Sac. CA
Dec. 8, 2010
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Alternative Schools ADA collectors and dead-end tracks
for minority & other low-income students Disproportionate enrollment of ethnic/racial and/or LEP
students
Failure to address the needs of LEP students
Involuntary placements without protections mandated by the Education Code
Disproportionate Minority Enrollment
Black Latino White
California 6.9% 50.4% 27% Continuation HS 10.2% 60.1% 21.9% Community Schools 8.2% 58.5% 25.3% Juvenile Court 20% 60.7% 12.7% Community Day 16.6% 56.4% 19.5%
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DATAQUEST http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/
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Advocacy Tools DATAQUEST CDE WEBSITE EDUCATION CODE & TITLE V REGS LANGUAGE CENSUS REPORTS COUNTY WIDE PLANS FOR EXPELLED STUDENTS DISTRICT & SCHOOL SITE WEBSITES
POLICIES SCHOOL BOARD DEMOGRAPHICS MINUTES STUDENT HANDBOOKS SARC REPORTS
Ed Code §48916.1
In most cases, at the time an expulsion is ordered, the governing board of the school district must ensure that an educational program is provided to the pupil who is subject to the expulsion.
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Questions to Ask About Alternative Schools
For each student it should be determined: Why is the student enrolled there? How long has the student been enrolled? When is the student entitled to return to a regular
school? If the student has a right to return to a regular school,
and if that has not occurred, why not?
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Barriers to Re-Entry Need to serve out expulsion term
Failure to accept partial credits
Ignorance
Placement in a group home
Need to make up credits or graduation requirements
Tracking of certain youth by a school district into certain placements
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Alternative Schools in California County Community Schools – EC §§ 1980-1986
Community Day Schools – EC §§ 48660-48667
Continuation High Schools – EC §§ 48430-48438
Independent Study – EC §§ 51745 – 51749.3
Juvenile Court Schools – EC §§ 48645 – 48645.6
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CA LEP Enrollment
24% of all students are Limited English Proficient (LEP) or English Learner (EL) students
44% of all students speak a language other than English
in their homes (LEP/Fluent English Proficient (FEP))
Ed. Code § 48985
“When 15 percent or more of the pupils enrolled in a public school that provides instruction in kindergarten or any of grades 1 through 12 speak a single primary language other than English . . . all notices, reports, statements, or records sent to the parent or guardian of any such pupil by the school or school district shall, in addition to being written in English, be written in such primary language, and may be responded to either in English or the primary language.”
See - http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/pf/cm/transref.asp
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CDE’s Translation Resources CDE’s Document Translation References Website
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/pf/cm/transref.asp
Language Group Data Statewide
http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/lc/statelc-alphabetical.aspx?cyear=2008-09&%3Aevel=state
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Youth Law Center
200 Pine Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94104
www.ylc.org
Deborah Escobedo
(415) 543-3379 x 3907