ERIC Number: ED641327
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Oct
Pages: 37
Abstractor: ERIC
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Lost Instruction Time in California Schools: The Disparate Harm from Post-Pandemic Punitive Suspensions
Ramon T. Flores; Daniel J. Losen
Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles
While the statewide trends and disparities suggest that the rate of lost instruction in California due to out-of-school suspension (OSS) is about where it was before the COVID-19 school closures, this is the first report to highlight how post-COVID suspensions in 2021-2022 have added to the pandemic's harmful impact of instructional loss, especially for students from "high-needs" groups, who were most harmed by the pandemic. This report analyzes California Department of Education (CDE) data sources to provide a detailed review of how suspensions directly contribute to disparities in learning opportunities for students in foster care or experiencing homelessness, as well as along the lines of race and disability in every California school district. It also describes evidence of extreme differences in how some districts responded to student misconduct in 2021--2022 and uses the data on student enrollment and the raw count of days lost due to OSS to establish a baseline measure for calculating comparable rates of lost instruction for every group in every district in California.
Descriptors: Discipline, Suspension, COVID-19, Pandemics, State Departments of Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Opportunities, Foster Care, Homeless People, Student Characteristics, Race, School Districts, Student Behavior, Disproportionate Representation, Students with Disabilities, Minority Group Students, African American Students, Instructional Program Divisions, Time Factors (Learning), English Language Learners, Low Income Students
Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles. 8370 Math Sciences, P.O. Box 951521, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521. Tel: 310-267-5562; Fax: 310-206-6293; e-mail: crp@ucla.edu; Web site: http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu
Related Records: ED641330
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: California Endowment
Authoring Institution: University of California, Los Angeles. Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles; National Center for Youth Law (NCYL)
Identifiers - Location: California
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