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

descobedo@ylc.org

(415) 543-3379 x 3907