After concerted efforts to use alternatives to out-of-school punishment and reduce racial disparities in discipline, high school suspensions in Montgomery County, Maryland plummeted nearly 37 percent in the past school year. Newly released figures show that suspensions in the county’s 25 high schools dropped from 2,263 in the 2012-2013 school year to 1,432 during the school year that ended in June. Suspensions involving black and Hispanic students fell by more than 600, but the district’s new figures show that while the gap has narrowed, suspensions of minority students continue to occur in disproportionate numbers. “We’ve shown we can make real progress,” Superintendent Joshua P. Starr said, noting that the decline reflects the district’s commitment to keeping students in schools and finding multiple ways to deal with discipline issues. “In no way, shape or form are we saying we are done.”
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 12:53:01 +0000
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